Sjeng Kerbusch (1947 - 1 March 1991) was a Dutch behavior geneticist. A native of

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, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Catholic University Nijmegen in 1974J.M.L. Kerbusch, 1974. ''Genetic analysis of exploratory behaviour, simple learning behaviour and cerebral AChE and ChE activities in mice by means of the diallel method.'' Ph.D. thesis, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 63 + 32 pp. as the third Dutchman in this field. Kerbusch' specialism was the application of quantitative-genetic methods, especially

diallel cross A diallel cross is a mating scheme used by plant and animal breeders, as well as geneticists, to investigate the genetic underpinnings of quantitative traits.Hallauer, A. R. and J. B. Miranda Filho. 1988 Quantitative genetics in maize breeding. ...

es and Mendelian crosses, to the analysis of behavior. From 1984 to 1987, he was President of the

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and in 1988 he was local host for the 18th Annual Meeting of the

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held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Kerbusch died at Nijmegen from complications after a lung transplant.

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