Breeding for disease resistance in farm animals

Addressing principles associated with breeding animals for enhanced health and resistance to specific diseases, this title presents a review of the field with examples covering many diseases of importance to livestock production across various major livstock species

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bishop, S. C. [ (Stephen C.)] (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI , c2010
Edition:3rd ed
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2010/20103344606.pdf

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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The immune system -- 3. Modelling farm animal diseases -- 4. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- 5. Viral diseases in chickens -- 6. Bovine viral diseases: the role of host genetics -- 7. Viral diseases in pigs -- 8. Breedng for resistance to viral diseases in salmonids -- 9. Genetics of mastitis in dairy ruminants -- 10. Salmonella in chickens -- 11. Escherichia coli and Salmonella in pigs -- 12. Genetic aspects of resistance to ovine footrot -- 13. Breeding for resistance to nematode infections -- 14. Ticks and tick-borne diseases in cattle -- 15. Metabolic diseases in sheep and cattle -- 16. Genetics of metabolic diseases in poultry 
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650 0 |a Veterinary immunogenetics 
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