Breeding for disease resistance in farm animals.

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Edition: 3rd edition ; edited by Stephen C. Bishop, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK, Roger F.E. Axford, Formerly School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK, Frank W. Nicholas, Department of Animal Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and John B. Owen, Formerly School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
• Subjects: Livestock > Breeding.; Livestock > Genetics.; Veterinary immunogenetics.; Host Resistance and Immunity.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Immunology, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Veterinary Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Aquaculture (Animals); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Cattle.; Fishes.; Fowls.; Goats.; Pigs.; Sheep.; Aetiology.; Animal breeding.; Animal diseases.; Bacterial diseases.; Disease resistance.; Domestic animals.; Genetic markers.; Genetics.; Immune system.; Immunity.; Livestock.; Metabolic disorders.; Parasitoses.; Poultry.; Prion diseases.; Selection.; Vector-borne diseases.; Viral diseases.; Electronic books.
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The third edition of this book contains chapters that discuss the immune system and the genetic aspects of breeding livestock and fishes for increased resistance against viral, prion, bacterial, parasitic, vector-borne and metabolic diseases.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Stephen C. Bishop, Roger F.E. Axford, Frank W. Nicholas and John B. Owen
• The immune system / Pete Kaiser
• Modelling farm animal diseases / Stephen C. Bishop
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / Nora Hunter and Wilfred Goldmann
• Viral diseases in chickens / Hans Cheng
• Bovine viral diseases : the role of host genetics / Elizabeth J. Glass, Rebecca Baxter, Richard Leach and Geraldine Taylor
• Viral diseases in pigs / Joan K. Lunney
• Breeding for resistance to viral diseases in salmonids / Thomas Moen
• Genetics of mastitis in dairy ruminants / Rachel Rupp and Gilles Foucras
• Salmonella in chickens / Susan J. Lamont
• Escherichia coli and Salmonella in pigs / Inger Edfors and Montserrat Torremorell
• Genetic aspects of resistance to ovine footrot / Herman W. Raadsma and Joanne Conington
• Breeding for resistance to nematode infections / Michael J. Stear
• Ticks and tick-borne diseases in cattle / Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano and Kishore Prayaga
• Metabolic diseases in sheep and cattle / Chris A. Morris and Sin H. Phua
• Genetics of metabolic diseases in poultry / Paul M. Hocking.