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Author : John Foster Lasley
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89013297536
Author : John Foster Lasley
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : WISC:89050725167
Location: Aggie West Library!
Author : Dorian Garrick,Anatoly Ruvinsky
Publisher : CABI
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780642215
Since the time of domestication more than 10,000 years ago, cattle have played an increasingly crucial role in the development of human civilizations. Progress has been quite remarkable since the turn of the century; the sequencing of the bovine genome in 2009 launched new avenues for furthering our understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of cattle genetics. Covering a vast array of questions, this book reviews major topics from molecular and developmental genetics, disease resistance and immunogenetics to genetic improvement of dairy and beef breeds, addressing all current problems in the field. This second edition includes a new team of authors and completely new chapters on the genetics of fat production, nutrition, feed intake and efficiency, growth and body composition. Fully updated throughout, it provides a valuable resource on cattle genetics for researchers, breeders, veterinarians and postgraduate students.
Author : Geoff Simm,Geoff Pollott,Raphael Mrode,Ross Houston,Karen Marshall
Publisher : CABI
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781789241723
Genetic Improvement of Farmed Animals provides a thorough grounding in the basic sciences underpinning farmed animal breeding. Relating science to practical application, it covers all the major farmed animal species: cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, pigs and aquaculture species.
Author : Daniel Gianola,Keith Hammond
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642744877
Developments in statistics and computing as well as their application to genetic improvement of livestock gained momentum over the last 20 years. This text reviews and consolidates the statistical foundations of animal breeding. This text will prove useful as a reference source to animal breeders, quantitative geneticists and statisticians working in these areas. It will also serve as a text in graduate courses in animal breeding methodology with prerequisite courses in linear models, statistical inference and quantitative genetics.
Author : C.V. Singh,R.S.Barwhal
Publisher : New India Publishing Agency
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789381450826
The book presents conventional and modern breeding technologies in the vital areas of animal breeding, to stimulate more research, and to rapidly pass such modern techniques to scientific community. Various conventional breeding technologies used for selection and faster multiplication of superior cattle and buffalo germplasm have contributed significantly to increase in milk production, which were mainly due to the technologies developed in the areas of quantitative genetics and reproductive biology. These included methodologies for selection of females based upon their expected producing ability and young males based on the performance of progeny. Emerging developments in the areas of molecular marker systems in animals, genome maps, methods of detecting Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) linkages, Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) etc., are latest tools to be used in breeding programmes for enhancing the rate of genetic progress. These modern techniques could be of great help for those traits, for which the conventional technologies have limitations in their use. Therefore, integration of molecular markers with conventional breeding technologies involving pedigree and phenotypic information are probable future breeding tools for genetic improvement of livestock and poultry.
Author : J. E. Legates,James Edward Legates,Everett James Warwick
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Livestock
ISBN : WISC:89016903338
Author : Matthew L. Spangler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781071624609
This newly updated and revised volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) details the role of Animal Breeding and Genetics in the sustainability of animal agriculture. The volume covers scientific principles and applications includes the current science used to advance cattle, poultry, swine,sheep, and equine populations, as well as the future role of techniques such as gene editing. International leaders in the field explain foundational concepts such as heritability, the covariance between relatives, statistical approaches to predicting the genetic merit of individuals, and the development and advancement of molecular techniques to elucidate changes in the DNA sequence that underly phenotypic variation. The use of genetic-based tools to improve animal agriculture and meet consumer demands across species is treated in detail. Readers will gain an understanding of how global livestock producers have implemented advanced genetic selection tools and used them to improve reproduction, production, efficiency, health, and sustainability. The interactions of genetics and production environments, and the genetic components of the complex interactions among animals are also discussed. The future of Animal Breeding and Genetics, including the challenges and opportunities that exist in feeding a growing world population, are addressed.
Author : J. W. Wilton,V. M. Quinton,C. D. Quinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animal genetics
ISBN : 0991946804
Author : Victor Arthur Rice
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : WISC:89030613996
Breeding and improvement of farm animals; Basic process of inheritance; The anatomy of the reproducive system; The physiology of the reproductive systems; The potpourri - lethals, antigens and others; Variation; Population genetics; Inbreeding and relationship; Outbreeding; Principles of selection; Improving dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine and sheep; Retrospect and prospect.
Author : Geoff Simm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Cattle
ISBN : 0851996426
* Outlines the link between genes and performance in farm animals * Shows tools for more effective genetic selection * Highlights the role and ethical implications of new reproductive and molecular genetic technologies The application of scientific methods to animal breeding has led to major improvements in the output, cost and quality of animal products over the last few decades. This book describes the principles of genetic improvement of farm livestock and the practical application of these principles to dairy cattle, beef cattle and sheep breeding. This title has been taken over by CABI Publishing from Farming Press and was originally published in 1998
Author : Sukanta Mondal,Ram Lakhan Singh
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128206126
Advances in Animal Genomics provides an outstanding collection of integrated strategies involving traditional and modern - omics (structural, functional, comparative and epigenomics) approaches and genomics-assisted breeding methods which animal biotechnologists can utilize to dissect and decode the molecular and gene regulatory networks involved in the complex quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock. Written by international experts on animal genomics, this book explores the recent advances in high-throughput, next-generation whole genome and transcriptome sequencing, array-based genotyping, and modern bioinformatics approaches which have enabled to produce huge genomic and transcriptomic resources globally on a genome-wide scale. This book is an important resource for researchers, students, educators and professionals in agriculture, veterinary and biotechnology sciences that enables them to solve problems regarding sustainable development with the help of current innovative biotechnologies. Integrates basic and advanced concepts of animal biotechnology and presents future developments Describes current high-throughput next-generation whole genome and transcriptome sequencing, array-based genotyping, and modern bioinformatics approaches for sustainable livestock production Illustrates integrated strategies to dissect and decode the molecular and gene regulatory networks involved in complex quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock Ensures readers will gain a strong grasp of biotechnology for sustainable livestock production with its well-illustrated discussion
Author : Wendy Mercedes Rauw
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Genetics
ISBN : 9782889198832
In livestock species, breeding goals are aimed primarily at improvement of production traits. However, there are a number of examples where selection for high production efficiency has resulted in reduced welfare through unfavorable outcomes in health and fitness characteristics. These effects raise questions about what is ethically acceptable in animal breeding. Welfare problems may be experienced when physiological balance is disturbed by genetic selection for high production alone, by a mismatch between the environmental challenges and the range of coping responses available to an animal, or from a mismatch between the animal’s needs and their degree of satisfaction. This may be resolved by either improving the environment to support the animal, but also by providing the animal, through genetic selection, with means to adapt to the production environment. The Standing Committee of the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes emphasizes that breeding goals should include health and welfare. The Farm Animal Welfare Council pleas for a greater emphasis in breeding programs on traits associated with good welfare. However, although breeding goals in most farm animal species have been broadened beyond production traits to include functional traits, behavioral traits are rarely included despite their potential to improve animal production and welfare. It is the goal of the present Research Topic to bring together experimental and theoretical research focusing on the genetics of welfare traits and the possibility to improve animal welfare through selection. This topic presents an overview of the relationship between selection for high production and livestock robustness, examples of improving robustness through the introduction of novel traits in livestock breeding, and a discussion on selection methods to address welfare issues. The discussion on sustainability of breeding practices is very alive today and will remain to be an important part of the debate in the future.
Author : E. P. Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : WISC:89031307234
Author : Daniel Gianola,Keith Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Livestock
ISBN : 3540508090
Statistical methods in animal improvement: historical overview. Mixed model methodology and the box-cox theory of transformations: a Bayesian approach. Models for discrimination between alaternative modes of inheritance. Design of experiments and breeding programs. Considerations in the design of animal breeding experiments. Use of mixed model methodology in analysis of designed experiments. Statistical aspects of design of animal breeding programs; a comparison among various selection strategies. Optimum designs for sire evaluation schemes. Estimation of genetic parameters. Computational aspects of likelihood-based inference for variance components. Parameter estimation in variance component models for binary response data. Estimation of genetic parameters in non linear models. Prediction and estimation of genetic merit. A framework for prediction of breeding value. BLUP (Best Linear Unbiased Prediction) and Beyond. Connectedness in genetic evaluation. Prediction and estimation in non-linear models. Generalized linear models and applications to animal breeding. Analysis of linear and non-linear growth models with randon parameters. Survival endurance and censored observations in animal breeding. Genetic evaluation for discrete polygenic traits in animal breeding. Selection and non-random mating. Accounting for selection and mating biases in genetic evaluation. Statistical inferences in populations Undergoing selection of non-random mating. Statistics and new genetic technology. Reproductive technology and genetic.