There are number of methods for each measurement reported in literature and it poses some difficulty in selecting a suitable method particularly for those who have newly entered the research field. Compilation of appropriate methods for a wide range of measurement employed in biological research is often helpful to researchers and technicians and the present book is an attempt in that direction. The book entitled “Analytical Procedures in Animal Nutrition ...
Animal biotechnology includes any use of science or technology to alter the characteristics of a particular breed or animal. Genetic engineering is the manipulation of genetic material, that is DNA and RNA with the objective of bringing about desired change or innovation. In the present book, effort have made to incorporate the information on animal biotechnology, animal cell and tissue culture, biotechnology and animal cloning in genetic engineering. The book is ...
Buffalo: Production System for Milk, Meat (Buffen) and Employment
The present book on buffalo production contains some important aspects not yet covered in many other books. The chapter on buffalo meat production contains two new term buffen and buffeal for buffalo meat and buffalo veal respectively. Use of these two terminologies for the buffalo carcass will remove confusion for beef and veal not accepted by greater number of people. The chapter on employment around buffaloes provides vast subjects of employment for the people ...
Animal behaviour is the scientific study of everything animals do, whether the animals are single-celled organisms, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, or mammals. It involves investigating the relationship of animals to their physical environment as well as to other organisms, and includes such topics as how animals find and defend resources, avoid predators, choose mates and reproduce, and care for their young. This book provides a broad overview ...
The book provides National and International status of sericulture and its developments. Various topics deals with moriculture, disinfectants, seed production, silkworm rearing (B. Mori and A. Mylitta), pests and diseases of silkworm, pests and diseases of mulberry and survey and survelliance of silkworm natural enemies. Special emphasis is given on the aspects of parasitoids of silkworms under which information is given on life history, host specificity and life ...
Zoonoses Infectious Diseases of Animals Transmissible to Humans
Zoonoses describe diseases that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans. Zoonotic diseases are common and are caused by various types of agents such as bacteria, fungi, viruses or parasites. The present book entitled “Zoonoses: Infectious Diseases of Animals Transmissible to Humans” is divided into five sections which encompasses all essentials aspects of zoonoses. The first section deals with general aspects of zoonoses. The second ...
Haemoprotozoan parasitic diseases remains one of the major hurdles for raising livestock profitability. The trypanosomes were first isolated from animals in undivided India. After independence, with the introduction of cross breeding programme throughout the country, the prevalence of haemoprotozoan parasitic diseases especially theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis in bovines increased significantly and drew attention of policy makers. Since then the ...
Objective Animal Physiology For JRF, SRF, ARS, NET, Civil Services & Other Competitive Examinations
This book directly deals with students of Animal Physiology and is also helpful for students of Veterinary Sciences. The book will help the students to boost their confidence before ICAR (NET), ARS and SRF examination as it is a complete hand book that covers course outline of all these examinations in the discipline of Animal Physiology. The book covers almost 1400 questions in the subject category of Animal behaviour, growth,climatology, blood, circulatory ...
The book ‘Medical and Veterinary Virology’, is an intelligent collation of concepts in viral diseases affecting humans and animals. The authors have taken an approach of dealing with viruses as causes of infectious syndromes, paying attention to fundamentals of virus pathogenesis, host response and virus detection in the laboratory in the early part of the book. All the important virus disease syndromes have been described lucidly with special ...
Handbook of Animal Nutrition, as the name implies, provides the information on practical aspects of animal nutrition in a nutshell. The information in this book will be of practical utility for actual feeding of animals e.g. chapters on various rations, nutrient requirement tables, TMR, Feeding of pregnant/lactating animals, feeding of calves, importance of mineral mixture feeding, bypass nutrients etc. The book also covers feeding aspect of horse, pig, dog and ...
Statistics and Computers for Animal and Veterinary Sciences: Fundamentals and Applications
The present book has been well prepared to meet the requirements of the students of Animal and Veterinary Science, Animal Biotechnology and other related fields. The book will serve as a text book not only for students in Veterinary science but also for those who want to know “What statistics in all about” or who need to be familiar with at least the language and fundamental concepts of statistics. The book will serve well to build necessary ...
It was perceived that there was scarcity of a good book on “Vertebrate Zoology and Evolution” for the students of Hons. and Post-Graduate classes of Indian Universities. This book has been written in such a way that in addition to the fundamentals, other important aspects have also been covered so far. Descriptions from Cyclostomes to Mammals in the vertebrate series, and, selected Topics in Evolution have been incorporated in this book, which are ...
Abattoir Practices By-Products and Wool Technology
The book carries detailed information on: The fundamentals of abattoir establishments, slaughter procedures for quality meat production, scientific evaluation of food animals and carcasses are thus discussed in most effective manners. The sustainability of meat industry and meat food sector is basically dependant on abattoir by-products utilization. So different types of by-products generated in abattoir i.e. blood, hide and skin, intestines, bones, glandular ...
Animal husbandry is strongly influenced by weather and climate. Climate change/variability imposes multiple stresses in animals and thus vital to understand the impact of environmental stress on livestock production and reproduction. Among the environmental variables affecting livestock, heat stress seems to be one of the more intriguing factors making difficult animal reproduction and production. Information and knowledge on animal responses to the environment ...
This book covers most of the topics with latest information on canine cancer in general and canine mammary cancer in particular. The book is divided into 21 chapters covering almost all aspects of canine cancer including its overview, occurrence, etiology, classifications, polymorphism, radiological-immuno-hormonal-sex hormone profiles, enzymatic-genetic-tissue prognostic markers and different modern diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. This book also includes ...
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics In Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Biotechnology in general emphasizes the technology based on biology by using the scientific knowledge and engineering principles for production of materials by biologic agents for animal health and productivity. The application of biotechnology to animals has a long history, since the domestication. Bioinformatics is a multi-disciplinary field with an appropriate convergence of computer science, information technology, biotechnology, biology, genetics, ...
Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture And Animal Production
Sustainable agriculture has been practiced for many decades for management and conservation of natural resources and the technological interventions in such a manner as to ensure the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs for present and future generations. In livestock production, sustainability can mean being able to harvest the same quantity of milk, meat, wool, egg or fiber from a given land base indefinitely. Sustainable development in the ...
