Bovine genomics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Womack, James E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell , c2012
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The origins of cattle
  • 2. Mendelian inheritance in cattle
  • 3. Genetics of coat color in cattle
  • 4. From quantitative genetics to quantitative genomics: a personal odyssey
  • 5. Cartography of the bovine genome
  • 6. History of linkage mapping the bovine genome
  • 7. Bovine X and Y chromosomes
  • 8. Cattle comparative genomics and chromosomal evolution
  • 9. Sequencing the bovine genome
  • 10. Bovine genome architecture
  • 11. Bovine epigenetics and epigenomics
  • 12. Mapping quantitative trait loci
  • 13. Genome wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium in cattle
  • 14. Genomic selection in beef cattle
  • 15. Impact of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing on the identification of genes and variants underlying phenotypic variation in domestic cattle