Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 57 : Animal Biotechnology for Livestock Production 2

This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools.

Biotechnology has remarkably improved the productivity of livestock by increasing the reproduction efficiency and decreasing the generation time.

The chapters detail the mechanisms of methods for animal reproduction and breeding methods.

This book focus on the impact of minerals, steroids metabolic stress, nutritional stress and anti-nutritional factors on the livestock reproduction.