Animal Science Reviews 2010

Animal Science Reviews 2010

Animal Science Reviews Animal Science Reviews provides scientists and students in the field with timely analysis on key topics in current research. These chapters were originally published online in CAB Reviews. This volume makes available in printed form the reviews in animal science published during 2010. Animal Science Reviews 2010 Edited by David Hemming CAB International, UK CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI Head Office Nosworthy Way Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8DE UK Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 E-mail: cabi@cabi.org Website: www.cabi.org CABI North American Office 875 Massachusetts Avenue 7th Floor Cambridge, MA02139 USA Tel: +1 617 395 4056 Fax: +1 617 354 6875 E-mail: cabi-nao@cabi.org g CAB International 2011. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by…

Key Features

• Protein nutrition and nitrogen balance in buffalo cows
• Expression QTL and their applications in genetic improvement of farm animals
• A brief history of mammalian coat colour genetics
• Functional genomic approaches to understand the biological pathways
• Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality