Description
The poultry breeding sector faces a number of challenges, including the need to produce more resilient breeds in the face of disease, antibiotic resistance, increasing consumer concerns about bird health and welfare and expectations of poultry meat and egg quality. Advances in Poultry Genetics and Genomics provides a comprehensive review of the recent developments in poultry genetics, breeding and genomics, focusing on the improvement of functional traits to build resilience, the use of genomic selection and its application in breeding improved layers and broilers, as well as the sector’s emerging trends such as epigenetics and genome editing. With its distinguished editor team and international range of expert contributors, this book will be a standard reference for poultry scientists, and companies involved in poultry breeding. 581 p.
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, N° 79
- Samuel E. Aggrey, Editor. University of Georgia, Athens, GA (USA).
- Huaijun Zhou, Editor. University of California-Davis, CA (USA).
- Michèle Tixier-Boichard, Editor. INRAE, Paris (France). Et al…
- Publication date (digital version): 2016-12.
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