Emeritus Professor Frank Nicholas

Genetics Laboratory
Gunn Building B19
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Ph +61 412 825 761
Fax +61 2 9351 2114
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Qualifications

BScAgr (Sydney), PhD (Edinburgh)

Main projects

Curation of Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA)

Comparative genomics: Oxford grids

Integrated maps: the Comparative Location Database (CompLDB)

Charles Darwin in Australia by F.W. and J.M. Nicholas

Contributions to the Profession and the Community

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Veterinary Journal
Member, Editorial team, Genetics section, Animal

Selected Publications

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
Further details; Anniversary edn 2008 Further details

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)
3rd edn 2010 (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford) Further details

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. Further details

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. Further details

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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