Breeding for disease resistance in farm animals
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Breeding for disease resistance in farm animals
CABI Pub., c2000
2nd ed
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Description
The first edition of this book, published in 1991, was based on a conference. However, this second edition consists of specially commissioned chapters to provide a more comprehensive and balanced review of the subject. Two additional editors, Stephen Bishop from the world-famous Roslin Institute, and Frank Nicholas, author of a widely respected textbook on veterinary genetics, have been brought in, as have several new contributors. As the subject of breeding for disease resistance rather than controlling diseases using expensive chemicals continues to be topical, this book will attract wide interest. The book gives full coverage of important areas of development, by those leading the field.
Table of Contents
Part I: Principles and Methods: 1: DNA Markers, Genetic Maps and the Identification of QTL: General Principles, A M Crawford, K G Dodds andJ C McEwan 2: Modelling Farm Animal Diseases, S C Bishop and G Gettinby 3: The Immune System, M J Doenhoff 4: The Major Histocompatibility Complex and its Role in Disease Resistance and Immune Responsiveness,M F Rothschild, L Skow and S J Lamont 5: Rodent Models of Genetic Resistance to Parasitic Infections, D Wakelin Part II: Parasites and Vectors: 6: Genetics of Helminth Resistance, L C Gasbarre and J E Miller 7: Host Resistance to Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Its Role in Integrated Control, B Minjauw and J J de Castro 8: Genetic Aspects of Resistance to Ovine Cutaneous Myiasis, H W Raadsma 9: Exploitation of Resistance to Trypanosomes and Trypanosomosis, G D M d'Ieteren, E Authie, N Wissocq andM Murray Part III: Bacteria: 10: Genetic Aspects of Resistance to Ovine Footrot, H W Raadsma 11: Mastitis in Dairy Cattle, J B Owen, R F E Axford and S C Bishop 12: Escherichia coli and Salmonella Diarrhoea in Pigs, I Edfors-Lilja and P Wallgren Part IV: Viruses and Subviruses: 13: Viral Diseases, K A Schat and C J Davies 14: Diseases Caused by Maedi-Visna and Other Ovine Lentiviruses, J C DeMartin, A de la Concha-Bermejillo,J O Carlson and R A Bowen 15: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, N Hunter Part V: Production Diseases: 16: Genetics of Susceptibility in Cattle and Sheep, C A Morris 17: Breeding for Disease Resistance to Production Diseases in Poultry, B H Thorp and E Luiting 18: Genetic Aspects of Health and Disease Resistance in Pigs, B N Wilke and B A Mallard 19: Lameness, O Distl
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