Emeritus Professor Frank Nicholas

Reprogen Genetics Laboratory
Gunn Building B19
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Ph +61 412 825 761
Fax +61 2 9351 2114
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BScAgr (Sydney), PhD (Edinburgh)

Curation of Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) http://omia.angis.org.au

Comparative genomics: Oxford grids
http://oxgrid.angis.org.au

Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Veterinary Journal
Member, Editorial team, Genetics section, Animal

1. Nicholas FW. (1987) Veterinary Genetics. xvii + 580 pp. Clarendon Press, Oxford; Spanish translation 1999

2. Nicholas FW. Nicholas JM. (1989). Charles Darwin in Australia. xiv + 175 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 2nd edn 2002
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3. Nicholas FW. (1996) Introduction to Veterinary Genetics. 317 pp. Oxford University Press, Oxford; Spanish translation 1998; Portuguese translation 1999; Japanese translation 1999; Indonesian translation 2005; 2nd edn 2003 (Blackwell Science, Oxford)
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4. Zaid A. Hughes HG. Porceddu E. Nicholas FW. (1999). Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering. FAO, Rome, pp. ix + 250; 2nd edn 2001. French edition, 2004; Spanish edition, 2004; Arabic edition, 2006. http://www.fao.org/biotech/index_glossary.asp

5. Axford RFE. Bishop SC. Nicholas FW. Owen JB. (Eds) (1999) Breeding for Disease Resistance in Farm Animals (2nd edn). CAB International, Wallingford, England, pp. xiv + 418
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6. Nicholas FW. (1980). Size of population required for artificial selection. Genetical Research 35: 85-105

7. Nicholas FW. Smith C. (1983). Increased rates of genetic change in dairy cattle by embryo transfer and splitting. Animal Production 36: 341 353

8. McGreevy PD. Nicholas FW. (1999). Some practical solutions to welfare problems in dog breeding. Animal Welfare 8: 329-341

9. Khatkar MS. Collins A. Cavanagh JAL. Hawken R. Hobbs M. Zenger K. Barris W. McClintock AE. Thomson PC. Nicholas FW. Raadsma HW. (2006) A first generation metric linkage disequilibrium map of bovine chromosome 6. Genetics 174(1): 79-85

10. Man WYN. Nicholas FW. James JW. (2007) A pedigree-analysis approach to the descriptive epidemiology of autosomal recessive disorders. Preventative Veterinary Medicine 78(3-4): 262-273

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