Bovine Genomics

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.

Auteur
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.

Contenu

List of Contributors

Foreword

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