Animal Science Reviews 2010

David Hemming is an experienced commissioning editor who has been inviting specialist authors to publish in CABI Reviews for over 20 years. He also commissions books on invasive species, international development and biotechnology. He is also interested in the application of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles with science and publishing. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Genetics in 1983 and gained a Ph. D. in Genetics in 1988, a Diploma in Science Communication in 1997 and was awarded an Open Degree in Creative Writing, Music and Literature in 2016.

1: Protein nutrition and nitrogen balance in buffalo cows. 2: Expression QTL and their applications in genetic improvement of farm animals. 3: A brief history of mammalian coat colour genetics. 4: Functional genomic approaches to understand the biological pathways underpinning intramuscular fat in beef. 5: Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality. 6: Whole genome marker-assisted selection. 7: Quantitative trait mutations in cattle, sheep and pigs: a review. 8: Technical, epidemiological and financial implications of large-scale national vaccination campaigns to control HPAI H5N1. 9: Accelerated lambing: Part 1. Housing for sheep. 10: Accelerated lambing: Part 2. Increasing the frequency of pregnancy in sheep. 11: Poultry sector development, highly pathogenic avian influenza and the smallholder production systems. 12: Fat and taste perception. 13: Microgoats in India and their role in future animal production in an era of climatic change. 14: Assessing biosafety of GM plants containing lectins 15: Ovine and caprine brucellosis (Brucella melitensis). 16: Plants as reservoirs for human enteric pathogens. 17: Use of high-density marker genotyping for genetic improvement of livestock by genomic selection. 18: Natural antimicrobials for food processing. 19: Palatability: principles, methodology and practice for farm animals. 20: Embryo cryopreservation in domestic mammalian livestock species. 21: Risk assessment of toxic contaminants in animal feed.