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Animal agriculture : sustainability, challenges and innovations /

Animal Agriculture: Sustainability, Challenges and Innovations discusses the land-based production of high-quality protein by livestock and poultry and how it plays an important role in improving human nutrition, growth and health. With exponential growth of the global population and marked rises in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bazer, Fuller Warren, 1938- (Editor ), Lamb, G. Cliff (Editor ), Wu, Guoyao, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: significance, challenges and strategies of animal production / Guoyao Wu, Fuller W. Bazer and G. Cliff Lamb.
  • I: Beef cattle production: 2. Genetics and breeding of beef cattle / Raluca G. Mateescu
  • 3. Physiology and pregnancy of beef cattle / Ky G. Pohler, Gessica A. Franco, Michael F. Smith, et al.
  • 4. Reproductive management of beef cattle / Pedro L.P. Fontes, Nicola Oosthuizen and G. Cliff Lamb
  • 5. Nutrition, feeding and management of beef cattle in intensive and extensive production systems / Tim A. McAllister, Kim Stanford, Gabriel Ribeiro, et al.
  • II: Lactation and management of dairy cattle: 6. Genetics and genomics of dairy cattle / Francisco P�eagaricano
  • 7. Physiology of lactation in dairy cattle : challenges to sustainable production / Geoffrey E. Dahl
  • 8. Reproductive management of dairy cattle / William W. Thatcher and Jo�s E.P. Santos
  • 9. Nutrition and feeding of dairy cattle / Peter S. Erickson and Kenneth F. Kalscheur.
  • III: Sheep and goat production: 10. Genetics and breeding of sheep and goats / Elisha Gootwine
  • 11. Reproductive physiology of sheep (Ovis aries) and goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) / Fuller W. Bazer
  • 12. Reproductive management of sheep and goats / Reid Redden and Jacob W. Thorne
  • 13. Sustainable sheep and goat production through strategic nutritional management and advanced technologies / Susan A. McCoard, David R. Stevens and Travis R. Whitney.
  • IV: Swine production: 14. Modern genetic and genomic improvement of the pig / Benny E. Mote and Max F. Rothschild
  • 15. Reproductive physiology of swine / Rodney D. Geisert, Peter Sutvosky, Ashley E. Meyer, et al.
  • 16. Reproductive management of swine / William L. Flowers
  • 17. Nutrition and feeding of swine / Hayford Manu and Samuel K. Baidoo.
  • V: Poultry production: 18. Poultry genetics and breeding / Giridhar Athrey
  • 19. Reproductive physiology of poultry / Claire S. Stephens and Patricia A. Johnson
  • 20. Reproductive management of poultry / Colin G. Scanes, Leasea D. Butler and Michael T. Kidd
  • 21. Precision poultry nutrition and feed formulation / Christopher A. Bailey.
  • VI: Biotechnologies and others in animal production: 22. Muscle biology and meat quality : challenges, innovations, and sustainability / Stephen B. Smith
  • 23. Genetic imporvement of livestock, from conventional breeding to biotechnological approaches / Blythe Schultz, Nick Se�ro and Jason W. Ross
  • 24. Fermentation techniques in feed production / Zhaolai Dai, Lu Cui, Guoyao Wu, et al.
  • 25. Mathematical modeling in animal production / Luis Orlindo Tedeschi and Hector Manuel Menendez
  • 26. Manure treatment and utilization in production systems / Zong Liu and Xiao Wang.
  • VII: Management of animal diseases in livestock and poultry production: 27. Management of metabolic disorders (including metabolic diseases) in ruminiant and nonruminant animals / Guoyao Wu
  • 28. Management of pathogens in cattle / Kevin E. Washburn
  • 29. Management of pathogens in swine / Brandon J. Dominguez
  • 30. Management of pathogens in poultry / Zutao Zhou, Bang Shen and Dingren Bi.