Description
Book SynopsisAnimal Science Reviews 2010 provides scientists and students in animal science with timely analysis on key topics in current research. Originally published online in CAB Reviews, this volume makes available in printed form the reviews in animal science published during 2010.
Table of Contents1: Protein nutrition and nitrogen balance in buffalo cows. 2: Expression QTL and their applications in genetic improvement of farm animals. 3: A brief history of mammalian coat colour genetics. 4: Functional genomic approaches to understand the biological pathways underpinning intramuscular fat in beef. 5: Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality. 6: Whole genome marker-assisted selection. 7: Quantitative trait mutations in cattle, sheep and pigs: a review. 8: Technical, epidemiological and financial implications of large-scale national vaccination campaigns to control HPAI H5N1. 9: Accelerated lambing: Part 1. Housing for sheep. 10: Accelerated lambing: Part 2. Increasing the frequency of pregnancy in sheep. 11: Poultry sector development, highly pathogenic avian influenza and the smallholder production systems. 12: Fat and taste perception. 13: Microgoats in India and their role in future animal production in an era of climatic change. 14: Assessing biosafety of GM plants containing lectins 15: Ovine and caprine brucellosis (Brucella melitensis). 16: Plants as reservoirs for human enteric pathogens. 17: Use of high-density marker genotyping for genetic improvement of livestock by genomic selection. 18: Natural antimicrobials for food processing. 19: Palatability: principles, methodology and practice for farm animals. 20: Embryo cryopreservation in domestic mammalian livestock species. 21: Risk assessment of toxic contaminants in animal feed.
