Applied animal endocrinology /

• Main Author: Squires, E. James, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Livestock > Reproduction.; Veterinary endocrinology.; Meat Producing Animals.; Egg Producing Animals.; Wool Producing Animals, (New March 2000); Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Cattle.; Fowls.; Pigs.; Sheep.; Endocrine system.; Endocrinology.; Growth.; Hormone secretion.; Hormones.; Poultry.; Somatotropin.; Stress.; Electronic books.
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This book aims to cover the endocrine systems that affect animal production and describe how the systems can be manipulated to improve productivity. It focuses on commercial species and endocrine systems that affect growth, carcass composition, production of wool, milk and eggs, reproductive efficie...

Table of Contents:

• Hormone and Receptor Structure and Function
• Endocrine Methodologies
• Manipulation of Growth and Carcass Composition
• Endocrine Effects on Animal Products
• Endocrine Manipulation of Reproduction
• Effects on Animal Behaviour, Health and Welfare.