Animal Science Reviews 2010

Contents......Page 6
1. Protein nutrition and nitrogen balance in buffalo cows......Page 8
2. Expression QTL and their applications in genetic improvement of farm animals......Page 16
3. A brief history of mammalian coat colour genetics......Page 24
4. Functional genomic approaches to understand the biological pathways underpinning intramuscular fat in beef......Page 30
5. Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality......Page 42
6. Whole genome marker-assisted selection......Page 56
7. Quantitative trait mutations in cattle, sheep and pigs: a review......Page 66
8. Technical, epidemiological and financial implications of large-scale national vaccination campaigns to control HPAI H5N1......Page 80
9. Accelerated lambing: Part 1. Housing for sheep......Page 100
10. Accelerated lambing: Part 2. Increasing the frequency of pregnancy in sheep......Page 122
11. Poultry sector development, highly pathogenic avian influenza and the smallholder production systems......Page 146
12. Fat and taste perception......Page 154
13. Microgoats in India and their role in future animal production in an era of climatic change......Page 164
14. Assessing biosafety of GM plants containing lectins......Page 172
15. Ovine and caprine brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)......Page 178
16. Plants as reservoirs for human enteric pathogens......Page 192
17. Use of high-density marker genotyping for genetic improvement of livestock by genomic selection......Page 204
18. Natural antimicrobials for food processing......Page 218
19. Palatability: principles, methodology and practice for farm animals......Page 236
20. Embryo cryopreservation in domestic mammalian livestock species......Page 252
21. Risk assessment of toxic contaminants in animal feed......Page 264
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C......Page 279
F......Page 280
L......Page 281
P......Page 282
T......Page 283
Z......Page 284