Reproduction in Domestic Ruminants V
Author(s): Edited by BK Campbell, R Webb, H Dobson and C Doberska
This substantial volume, containing papers from foremost experts on key topics such as: ruminant models in clinical medicine, an overview of ruminant production problems worldwide, reproductive technology, gamete-somatic cell interactions, pre-natal programming of lifetime productivity and health, nutrition-reproduction interactions, and genes controlling reproductive performance.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: August 2003
Binding: Hardback
Extent: 514 pp.
ISBN: 0-906545-41-2
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- Reproductive challenges facing the cattle industry at the beginning of the 21st century
- Aspects of reproductive performance in small ruminants - opportunities and challenges
- Enhancing reproductive performance in dairy buffalo: major constraints and achievements
- The main challenges facing camel reproduction research in the 21st Century
- Oocyte-somatic cell communication
- Evaluation of members of the TGFbeta superfamily as candidates for the oocyte factors that control mouse cumulus expansion and steroidogenesis
- Mechanisms regulating follicular development and selection of the dominant follicle
- Germ cell-somatic cell interactions during spermatogenesis
- Morphological assessment of preimplantation embryo quality in cattle
- The use of genomics and proteomics to understand oocyte and early embryo functions in farm animals
- Cloning in livestock agriculture
- Gene expression in the developing embryo and fetus
- Consequences of manipulating gametes and embryos of ruminant species
- Ruminant models of prenatal growth restriction
- Consequences of intra-uterine growth retardation for postnatal growth, metabolism and pathophysiology
- Lives in the balance: responsiveness of the corpus luteum to uterine and embryonic signals
- Follicle growth, corpus luteum function and their effects on embryo development in postpartum dairy cows
- Evolution of the interferon t genes and their promoters, and maternal-trophoblast interactions in control of their expression
- Regulation of embryo survival in cattle
- Stress and the control of LH secretion in the ewe
- Leptin actions on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis in sheep
- Sexually differentiated regulation of GnRH release by gonadal steroid hormones in sheep
- Origin of cerebrospinal fluid melatonin and possible function in the integration of photoperiod
- The role of bone morphogenetic proteins in ovarian function
- Oocyte-derived growth factors and ovulation rate in sheep
- Prolificacy genes in sheep: the French genetic programmes
- Bone morphogenetic proteins and folliculogenesis: lessons from the Booroola mutation
- Regulation of nutrient uptake and metabolism in pre-elongation ruminant embryos
- Fertility in male sheep: modulators of the acute effects of nutrition on the reproductive axis of male sheep
- Interactions between nutrition and ovarian activity in cattle: physiological, cellular and molecular mechanisms
- Mechanisms linking nutrition and reproduction in postpartum cows
- Domestic ruminants as models for the elucidation of the mechanisms controlling ovarian follicle development in humans
- Growth and maturation of oocytes in vitro
- The differential secretion of FSH and LH: regulation through genes, feedback and packaging
- Reprogramming the genome: role of the cell cycle
- Gene targeting in livestock
- Overview
- Author index
- Subject index
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