Description

Breeding programmes have primarily relied on simply choosing and mating the best individuals based on their own or relatives' performance, despite the fact that animal breeding was practised long before the science of genetics and the pertinent disciplines of population and quantitative genetics were known. The field of study known as animal breeding, genetics, and genomics is concerned with maximising desirable genetic features, such as raising animals with leaner meat. Animal geneticists have discovered components in genes that can improve an animal's health, development, and capacity to use nutrition. While enhancing the genetic quality of domestic animals, features for production and disease resistance are being targeted via traditional breeding programmes like inbreeding, outbreeding, or the addition of marker-assisted selection. The topic has been covered in a logical order to make it relatively simple for the reader to move from a simple to a more complex interpretation. It is anticipated that the reader, who is likely to be mostly graduate and post graduate animal breeding students and researchers, will be able to get a greater understanding of the dynamic field of animal breeding science. The applied breeding techniques used today for many domestic animal species are attempted to be described in this book.