Animal breeding

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winters, Laurence M. (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Lucknow : Greenworld Publishers , 2002
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Economic Importance of Animal Improvement
  • 2. Historical Background
  • 3. The Reproductive Organs
  • 4. Gametogenesis and the Physical Basis of Heredity
  • 5. The Breeding Cycle and the Sex Hormones
  • 6. Fertilization and Prenatal development
  • 7. The Role of Heredity
  • 8. Fundamental Mendelism and Animal Breeding
  • 9. Lethals
  • 10. Sex
  • 11. Selection
  • 12. Effectiveness of Selection
  • 13. Inbreeding
  • 14. Crossbreeding
  • 15. Purebred Breeding
  • 16. Grading
  • 17. Fertility
  • 18. Artificial insemination
  • 19. Building superior germ plasm