Bovine Genomics

Description

The genetic information being unlocked by advances in genomic and high throughput technologies is rapidly revolutionizing our understanding of developmental processes in bovine species. This information is allowing researchers unprecedented insight into the genetic basis of key traits. Bovine Genomics is the first book to bring together and synthesize the information learned through the bovine genome sequencing project and look at its practical application to cattle and dairy production.

Bovine Genomics opens with foundational chapters on the domestication of cattle and traditional Mendelian genetics. Building on these chapters, coverage rapidly moves to quantitative genetics and the advances of whole genome technologies. Significant coverage is given to such topics as epigenetics, mapping quantitative trail loci, genome-wide association studies and genomic selection in cattle breeding. The book is a valuable synthesis of the field written by a global team of leading researchers.

Providing wide-ranging coverage of the topic, Bovine Genomic, is an essential guide to the field. The basic and applied science will be of use to researchers, breeders, and advanced students.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors

• Chapter 1. The Origins of Cattle
  Matthew D. Teasdale and Daniel G. Bradley
• Chapter 2. Mendelian Inheritance in Cattle
  Frank Nicholas
• Chapter 3. Genetics of Coat Color in Cattle
  Sheila M. Schmutz
• Chapter 4. From Quantitative Genetics to Quantitative Genomics: A Personal Odyssey
  Morris Soller
• Chapter 5. Cartography of the Bovine Genome
  James E. Womack
• Chapter 6. History of Linkage Mapping the Bovine Genome
  Stephanie D. McKay and Robert D. Schnabel
• Chapter 7. Bovine X and Y Chromosomes
  F. Abel Ponce de Le´on and Wansheng Liu
• Chapter 8. Cattle Comparative Genomics and Chromosomal Evolution
  Denis M. Larkin
• Chapter 9. Sequencing the Bovine Genome
  Kim Worley and Richard Gibbs
• Chapter 10. Bovine Genome Architecture
  David L. Adelson
• Chapter 11. Bovine Epigenetics and Epigenomics
  Xiuchun (Cindy) Tian
• Chapter 12. Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci
  Joel I. Weller
• Chapter 13. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Linkage Disequilibrium in Cattle
  M. E. Goddard and B. J. Hayes
• Chapter 14. Genomic Selection in Beef Cattle
• Jeremy F. Taylor, Stephanie D. McKay, Megan M. Rolf, Holly R. Ramey, Jared
  E. Decker, and Robert D. Schnabel
• Chapter 15. Impact of High-Throughput Genotyping and Sequencing on the Identification of Genes and Variants Underlying Phenotypic Variation in Domestic Cattle
  Michel Georges

• Index

Author Information

James E. Womack is the W. P. Luse Endowed and Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology at Texas A&M University and Professor of Animal Genetics and Disease, WCU Biomodulation Program, Seoul National University.