Overview

During the last two decades major advances have been made in mammalian genetics. New methods in molecular and cytogenetics, and in biotechnology have been developed. Many of these have been applied to investigating the genetics of sheep and to improving the production of wool, meat and milk. This book is a comprehensive reference work on sheep genetics. All relevant topics have been included, from fundamental genetic structure to the genetics of various production and other traits, to transgenic sheep and genetic conservation. Chapters have been specially commissioned for the volume and written by internationally recognized experts from Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand. The book should be useful for advanced students and research workers in animal genetics, breeding and biotechnology.

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Author:   Piper Laurie (Honorary Research Fellow at CSIRO Livestock Industries and Adjunct Professor of Animal Science at the University of New England, Australia) ,  Anatoly Ruvinsky (University of New England, Australia) ,  Anatoly Ruvinsky (University of New England, Australia) ,  Anatoly Ruvinsky (University of New England, Australia)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.247kg
ISBN:  

9780851992006

ISBN 10:   0851992005
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   01 June 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Systematics and Phylogeny of the Sheep I R Franklin, CSIRO, Blacktown, Australia 2: Genetic Aspects of Domestication, Common Breeds and their Origin K Maijala, Helsinki, Finland 3: Genetics of Colour and Hair Texture D P Sponenberg, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, USA 4: Genetics of Morphological Traits and Inherited Disorders F W Nicholas, University of Sydney, Australia 5: Biochemical Genetics L Di Stasio, Department of Animal Science, Torino, Italy 6: Molecular Genetics of Sheep B C Powell, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia 7: Molecular Genetics of Immune Molecules W R Hein, Basle Institute for Immunology, Basle, Switzerland 8: Genetics of Disease Resistance and Vaccine Response H W Raadsma, University of Sydney, Australia, G D Gray, University of New England, Armidale, Australia and R R Woolaston, CSIRO Division of Animal Production, Armidale, Australia 9: Molecular Biology and Genetics of Scrapie in Sheep N Hunter, Institute for Animal Health, Edinburgh, UK 10: Cytogenetics: Physical Chromosome Maps T E Broad, AgResearch Invermay Agricultural Centre, New Zealand, H Hayes, Laboratoire de Genetique Biochimique et de Cytogenetique, France and S E Long, University of Bristol, Langford, Bristol, UK 11: The Sheep Linkage Map G W Montgomery and A M Crawford, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 12: Genetics of Behaviour G N Hinch, University of New England, Armidale, Australia 13: Biology and Genetics of Reproduction I W Purvis and M Hillard, CSIRO Division of Animal Production, Armidale, Australia 14: Modern Reproduction Technologies and Transgenics I Wilmut, K H S Campbell and L Young, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Midlothian, UK 15: Development Genetics N E Cockett, Utah State University, Logan, USA 16: Genetic Resources and Conservation R W Ponzoni, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, Australia 17: Genetic Improvement of Wool Production K D Atkins, Agricultural Research and Research Centre, Orange, Australia 18: Genetics of Lamb and Meat Production R G Banks, University of New England, Armidale, Australia 19: Genetics of Meat Quality J M Thompson and A J Ball, University of New England, Armidale, Australia 20: Genetics of Milk Production F Barillet, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan Cedex, France 21: Genetic Improvement of Sheep B P Kinghorn, University of New England, Armidale, Australia 22: Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Sheep C H S Dolling, President of COGNOSAG, South Australia

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A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just howthey had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious)history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in theirassertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology

A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology

<br> A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology A generation or more ago I was asked if I would be interested in exploring sheep genetics, then a neglected subject. . . . The variability within breeds puzzled me until a buyer told me he had selected a particular ram because it had a strong face. The genetics of sheep reflected not just how they had adapted, historically, and their environments, but was the subject of 11,000 years of human fashion. It seemed unlikely that sheep would be good subjects for genetic research. Since then much has changed, as this encyclopedic volume records. . . . It starts, of course, with a (dubious) history of breeds; and there are detailed descriptions of cross-breeds. . . . There is an excellent, well-balanced article on scrapie, the prion disease that is so much in the news. Administrators should be compelled to read this chapter, if nothing else, since they might become more modest in their assertions. --The Quarterly Review of Biology

Author Information

"Since graduation from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) in 1969 A. Ruvinsky has been working in several fields of genetics for more than 40 years. He received his PhD in 1974 and Dr.Sc. in 1985. In 1986 A. Ruvinsky was elected as head of laboratory of animal genetics and 1988 as Vice Director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1993 A. Ruvinsky joined the University of New England, Australia. Professor Ruvinsky published more than 100 refereed papers in leading genetic journals and edited 14 books so far. This includes the series of books on mammalian genetics, which currently undergoes 2nd edition. His conceptual book ""Genetics and Randomness"" was published in 2009."

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