Advances in Breeding of Dairy Cattle
Author : Julius Van der Werf
Publisher :
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Cattle
ISBN : 9781786762986
Animal Agriculture
Author : Fuller W. Bazer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0128170530
Book Description
Animal Agriculture: Sustainability, Challenges and Innovations discusses the land-based production of high-quality protein by livestock and poultry and how it plays an important role in improving human nutrition, growth and health. With exponential growth of the global population and marked rises in meat consumption per capita, demands for animal-source protein are expected to increase 72% between 2013 and 2050. This raises concerns about the sustainability and environmental impacts of animal agriculture. An attractive solution to meeting increasing needs for animal products and mitigating undesirable effects of agricultural practices is to enhance the efficiency of animal growth, reproduction, and lactation. Currently, there is no resource that offers specific knowledge of both animal science and technology, including biotechnology for the sustainability of animal agriculture for the expanding global demand of food in the face of diminishing resources. This book fills that gap, giving readers all the necessary information on important issues facing modern animal agriculture, namely its sustainability, challenges and innovative solutions. - Integrates new knowledge in animal breeding, biotechnology, nutrition, reproduction and management - Addresses the urgent issue of sustainability in modern animal agriculture - Provides practical solutions on how to solve the current and future problems that face animal agriculture worldwide
Animal Genomics
Author : Bhanu P. Chowdhary
Publisher : S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
This publication provides an update on the current status of gene maps in different livestock and pet/companion animal species. The findings summarized in species specific commentaries and original articles testify the rapid advances made in the field of animal genomics. Of significant interest is the fact that current investigations are providing headways for two important and exciting research fronts: targeted high-resolution mapping leading to the application of genomic information in addressing questions of economic and biological significance in animals, and the initiation of whole genome sequencing projects for some of the animal species. Like in humans and mice, this will set the stage for a new level of research and real time complex analysis of the genomes of these species. Animal Genomics signifies the beginning of a new era in this field and celebrates the achievements of the past 20 years of genomics research. It will be of special interest to researchers involved in genome analysis - both gross chromosomal as well as molecular - in various animal species, and to comparative and evolutionary geneticists.
Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309166152
Book Description
Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.
Intracellular Pangenesis
Author : Hugo de Vries
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Heredity
ISBN :
Book Description
Advances in Statistical Methods for Genetic Improvement of Livestock
Author : Daniel Gianola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642744877
Book Description
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.
Likelihood, Bayesian, and MCMC Methods in Quantitative Genetics
Author : Daniel Sorensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387954406
Book Description
This book, suitable for numerate biologists and for applied statisticians, provides the foundations of likelihood, Bayesian and MCMC methods in the context of genetic analysis of quantitative traits. Although a number of excellent texts in these areas have become available in recent years, the basic ideas and tools are typically described in a technically demanding style and contain much more detail than necessary. Here, an effort has been made to relate biological to statistical parameters throughout, and the book includes extensive examples that illustrate the developing argument.
Biographical Memoirs
Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0309060311
Book Description
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 73 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Mendel's Principles of Heredity
Author : William Bateson
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
Book Description
Bateson named the science "genetics" in 1905-1906. This is the first textbook in English on the subject of genetics.
Intellectual Property Rights in Animal Breeding and Genetics
Author : Max Frederick Rothschild
Publisher : CABI
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780851998381
Book Description
Intellectual property and patents involving animals is an ever-changing field. The purpose of this book is to review the role that intellectual property plays in the development of modern animal breeding and genetics. It includes discussion of the history of animal patenting, common forms ofintellectual property, economic issues related to patent protection and the funding of research, ethical issues, and the consequences of intellectual property in the modern animal genetics market place.
