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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire :
CABI ,
c2010
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2010/20103344606.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- 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