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Main Description

The first edition of this book, published in 1991, was based on a conference. However, this second edition consists of specially commissioned chapters to provide a more comprehensive and balanced review of the subject. Two additional editors, Stephen Bishop from the world-famous Roslin Institute, and Frank Nicholas, author of a widely respected textbook on veterinary genetics, have been brought in, as have several new contributors. As the subject of breeding for disease resistance rather than controlling diseases using expensive chemicals continues to be topical, this book will attract wide interest. The book gives full coverage of important areas of development, by those leading the field.

Readership

Students and researchers in animal breeding and genetics, and in veterinary medicine.

Main Contents

Part I Principles and Methods:
• DNA Markers, Genetic Maps and the Identification of QTL: General Principles, A M Crawford, K G Dodds and J C McEwan
• Modelling Farm Animal Diseases, S C Bishop and G Gettinby
• The Immune System, M J Doenhoff
• The Major Histocompatibility Complex and its Role in Disease Resistance and Immune Responsiveness, M F Rothschild, L Skow and S J Lamont
• Rodent Models of Genetic Resistance to Parasitic Infections, D Wakelin

Part II Parasites and Vectors:

• Genetics of Helminth Resistance, L C Gasbarre and J E Miller
• Host Resistance to Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Its Role in Integrated Control, B Minjauw and J J de Castro
• Genetic Aspects of Resistance to Ovine Cutaneous Myiasis, H W Raadsma
• Exploitation of Resistance to Trypanosomes and Trypanosomosis, G D M d’Ieteren, E Authié, N Wissocq and M Murray

Part III Bacteria:

• Genetic Aspects of Resistance to Ovine Footrot, H W Raadsma
• Mastitis in Dairy Cattle, J B Owen, R F E Axford and S C Bishop
• Escherichia coli and Salmonella Diarrhoea in Pigs, I Edfors-Lilja and P Wallgren

Part IV Viruses and Subviruses:

• Viral Diseases, K A Schat and C J Davies
• Diseases Caused by Maedi-Visna and Other Ovine Lentiviruses, J C DeMartin, A de la Concha-Bermejillo, J O Carlson and R A Bowen
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, N Hunter

Part V Production Diseases:

• Genetics of Susceptibility in Cattle and Sheep, C A Morris
• Breeding for Disease Resistance to Production Diseases in Poultry, B H Thorp and E Luiting
• Genetic Aspects of Health and Disease Resistance in Pigs, B N Wilke and B A Mallard
• Lameness, O Distl

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