BSAS Publication No. 30
The book covers a range of develoments including:
Policy issues, including the growing international effort, led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, to co-ordinate conservation of Farm Animal Genetic Resources • The growth in scientific knowledge in areas relevant to conservation, especially the quantitative and molecular genetic basis for conservation and reproductive techniques to support conservation • Methods of conservation and examples of conservation in practice.
Contents
- Conservation of farm animal genetic resources - a global view
- The conservation of animal genetic resources - a European perspective
- Conservation of farm animal genetic resources - a UK national view
- Evolution of Heritage GeneBank into The Sheep Trust: conservation of native traditional sheep breeds that are commercially farmed, environmentally adapted and contribute to the economy of rural communities
- The UK Government policy on farm animal genetic resource conservation
- Genetic variation within and among animal populations
- Managing populations at risk
- Experiences from plant GR conservation
- Managing genetic resources in selected and conserved populations
- The value of genome mapping for the genetic conservation of cattle
- Conservation genetics of UK livestock: from molecules to management
- Role of reproductive biotechnologies: global perspective, current methods and success rates
- Role of new and current methods in semen technology for genetic resource conservation
- Oocytes and assisted reproduction technology
- The integration of cloning by nuclear transfer in the conservation of animal genetic resources
- Biosecurity strategies for conservation of farm animal genetic resources
- The role of rare and traditional breeds in conservation: the Grazing Animal Project
- Use of molecular genetic techniques: a case study on the Iberian pig
- UK rare breeds: population genetic analyses and implications for applied conservation
- A UK conservation success story: Longhorn cattle, a case study
- Conserving animal genetic resources: making priority lists of British and Irish livestock breeds
- Index