Progress in Pig Science provides the reader with a highly detailed and comprehensive review of the current developments in the increasingly important field of pig science.
Progress in Pig Science covers a wide variety of pig science topics ranging from the more fundamental molecular sciences through to applications in the market place.
Contents
Genetics
- Progress in Pig Gene Mapping
- Multi-Trait Selection for Immune Responses: A Possible Alternative Strategy for Enhanced Livestock Health and Productivity
- Changing Technology and Selection Criteria
- Marker Assisted Selection in Commercial Pig Breeding Programmes
Weaning and the Neonate
- Immunological Development and Mucosal Defence in the Pig Intestine
- Gut Development and Regulation
- Behavioural Perspectives on Weaning in Domestic Pigs
- Post-Weaning Respiratory and Enteric Syndromes of the Pig
The Growing Pig
- Behaviour and Choice Feeding
- Predicting Feed Intake in Growing Pigs
- Thermoregulation
- Crop Biotechnology for Feed Improvement
Reproduction
- Control of Ovulation
- Embryosurvival and Prolificacy
- Seasonality and Reproduction
- Nutrition-Endocrine Interactions in the Female Pig
- Nutrition of the Rearing Gilt and Sow
- Management of Reproduction
Marketing and Meat Quality
- European Approach to Gatt
- Environmental Effects on Pig Handling Behaviour and Carcass Quality
- Developments in Assessment of Aroma and Flavour
- Protein and Fat Metabolism in Muscle and Adipose Tissue-its Influence on Meat Quality
- Controlled Atmospherepacking
- Probes and Robots for On-Line Evaluation of Pork
Environmental Aspects
- Environmental Impact of Pollutants from Pig Farming and Current Legislative Developments
- Pollution Issues in Pig Operations and the Influence of Nutrition, Housing and Manure Handling
- Building Design and the Built Environment
Management, Welfare and Health
- Environment/Disease Interactions
- Management of Large Units
- Impact of Immune System Activation on Pig Growth and Amino Acid Needs
Index
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