Samenvattingen worden gegeven van de huidige stand van wetenschap in de technologie voor de fokkerij. Daarnaast ook spekulaties voor toekomstige ontwikkelingen betreffende kunstmatige inseminatie, "embryotransplantatie-industrie", pluimveefokkerij en waterkultures. Verder wordt …
The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds has moved away from evolutionary pressures towards our own purposes: these include the breeding and use of around 50 billion mammals and birds for food production annually, the breeding of pedigree dogs, ca…
This book describes the theory and practice of methods for quantitative trait loci (QTL) detection and analysis, as well as marker assisted selection, in animal genetics and breeding. It is divided into 16 chapters: historical overview; principles of parameter estimation; random…
For seafood production to meet expected demand from a growing global population, many more millions of tons of seafood will need to be produced. The expectations for increased product from capture fisheries is limited, so this rise in production will have to come from aquacultur…
