Bovine genomics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Womack, James E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of cattle
  • Mendelian inheritance in cattle
  • Genetics of coat color in cattle
  • From quantitative genetics to quantitative genomics : a personal odyssey
  • Cartography of the bovine genome
  • Linkage mapping
  • The bovine X and Y chromosomes
  • Comparative genomics and evolution
  • Sequencing the bovine genome
  • Bovine genome architecture
  • Bovine epigenetics and epigenomics
  • Mapping quantitative trait loci
  • Genome wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium in cattle
  • Genomic selection in beef cattle
  • Impact of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing on the identification of genes and variants underlying phenotypic variation in domestic cattle.