Genetics and Breeding for Disease Resistance of Livestock

Genetics and Breeding for Disease Resistance of Livestock is a solid resource that combines important information on the underlying genetic causes and governing factors for disease resistance in food animals and applications for breeding purposes. It describes genomics at each species level to help researchers and students understand disease resistance and immunology using genomics and its application in breeding for disease resistance. This useful reference makes it easy for readers to understand and undergo further research in immunology and disease resistance for livestock. It includes novel applications and research material that is ideal for students, teachers, academicians and researchers.

Presents basic principles and protocols to describe research methodologies through diagrammatic illustrations with figures, flow charts, examples, and referencesCovers various disease occurrences in livestock and the methodologies available to identify the various pathogens responsible for these diseasesIncludes advanced breeding techniques and practical applications

1. Overview of disease resistance 2. Concept of Disease resistance 3. Major diseases of livestock and Poultry and the problems encountered for its control diseases 4. Disease resistant traits-analytic tools – Indicator traits

Section 2: Genetics and Genomics for Disease resistance 5. Basic concepts of immunogenetics 6. Genetics for innate immunity 7. Genetics for Humoral immunity 8. Immune response genes 9. Techniques to study immune response genes 10. Genes conferring immunity against bacterial infections 11. Genes conferring immunity against viral infections 12. Genes conferring immunity against protozoal infections 13. Genes conferring immunity against parasitic infections 14. Identified immune response genes pertaining to livestock species 15. Advanced Genomic techniques for studying immune response genes 16. Strategies for exploiting Immune response genes 17. Breeding for disease resistance 18. Phenotypic traits for disease resistance 19. Selection of Livestock and Poultry for disease resistance 20. Heritability, repeatability, genetic correlation for disease resistance traits 21. Disease resistance for Cattle and Buffalo 22. Disease resistance for goat and sheep 23. Disease resistance for pig 24. Disease resistance for poultry 25. Breeding methodologies for development of disease resistant stock of livestock 26. Advanced Breeding Techniques 27. Future application for studies on disease resistance