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Redesigning Animal Agriculture The Challenge of the 21 st Century Edited By David L. Swain Chair, Horizons in Livestock Sciences 2005 CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia Ed Charmley CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia John Steel CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia And Shaun Coffey Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand
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Page 2 and 3: Redesigning Animal Agriculture The
Page 6 and 7: Contents Contributors vii Acknowled
Page 8 and 9: Contributors Margaret Alston, Direc
Page 10 and 11: Acknowledgements “The editors gra
Page 12 and 13: Introduction to Redesigning Animal
Page 14 and 15: Introduction xiii factors). In rede
Page 16 and 17: 1 Redesigning Animal Agriculture: a
Page 18 and 19: ing to the confusions and complexit
Page 20 and 21: such as environmental integrity alo
Page 22 and 23: The Systems Idea in Agriculture Sys
Page 24 and 25: These are all matters that are enti
Page 26 and 27: was intended to capture this vital
Page 28 and 29: wants and needs to be comprehensive
Page 30 and 31: people who can journey together tow
Page 32 and 33: A Systemic Perspective 17 Gunderson
Page 34 and 35: and telecommunications infrastructu
Page 36 and 37: y a move from a more intensive indu
Page 38 and 39: from 10 to 40% higher than urban Au
Page 40 and 41: in rural areas - environmental degr
Page 42 and 43: young people are leaving farms and
Page 44 and 45: Maintaining Vibrant Rural Communiti
Page 46 and 47: views in philosophical animal ethic
Page 48 and 49: case of virtues) there are specific
Page 50 and 51: animal ethics that is dominated by
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to the idea that it is not wrong af
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not show sufficient respect to anim
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that ethical norms and ethical voca
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Ethics of Livestock Science 45 Diam
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plasticity of the genome and the po
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a highly predictable and beneficial
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immune response genes in both speci
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annotate these regions. The Herefor
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to their production source. This ca
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cially viable genetic tests. One re
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additive effects of the contributin
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understanding the relationship betw
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The Impact of Genomics 63 Mattick,
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5 Precision Animal Breeding Kishore
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effects (e.g. contemporary groups,
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the mean performance of the parenta
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or even shipped out overseas as liv
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tions underlying the desirable phen
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3. Markers 0.25 cM apart - through
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Infinitesimal Model y = Xb + Z1u +
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Precision Animal Breeding 79 Jansen
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6 Germ Cell Transplantation - a Nov
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testicular environment could be ove
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Brinster et al., 2003). Treatment o
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ingly sought after to produce bioph
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Acknowledgements Work from the auth
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Germ Cell Transplantation 91 epigen
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Germ Cell Transplantation 93 von Sc
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own maternal chromosomes. This reco
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eprogramming following NT, leading
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species (Schnieke et al., 1997) and
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lentivectors and RNA interference (
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under development as a biopharmaceu
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Rather than attempting to manipulat
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strated in transgenic mice over-exp
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Regulatory Issues The regulatory re
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health, fitness and behaviour of th
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goals. More specifically, it remain
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Cloning and Transgenesis 115 Gama,
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Cloning and Transgenesis 117 McCrea
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Cloning and Transgenesis 119 Stinna
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8 Transforming Livestock with Trans
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have been adapted to allow more pre
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commercial lines is apparently not
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protection of the genome against mo
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(Hammond et al., 2000). Binding of
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There are a number of ways to produ
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ules that determine siRNA activity
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known influenza A virus H subtypes
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will need to be balanced against th
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Transforming Livestock with Transge
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Introduction A key difficulty faced
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dation to probabilistic (e.g. a giv
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Similarly, the probability that a d
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One approach to the development of
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1 1 nb − ( m + mI ) m XS = ( m +
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1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 value of the st
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that shown in (9.9). In the sequel
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Metropolis-Hastings algorithm descr
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30 20 10 logging system composed of
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0.09 0.08 0.07 0.06 0.05 0.04 0e+00
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confronting models with data in thi
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This is especially surprising since
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Stochastic Process-based Modelling
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10 Reef Safe Beef: Environmentally
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and most beef is produced under ext
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Mean NDVI Burdekin Mean NDVI Fitzro
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High biomass/cover Also, the increa
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Good or ‘A’ condition has the f
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Value ($) Grazier disinclination of
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Reef Safe Beef 183 Ludwig, J.A., Wi
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11 Meeting Ecological Restoration T
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evidence of only slight degradation
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Throughout the UK, there are spatia
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Quarterly flow weighted mean nitrat
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suggest that the majority of inland
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Table 11.3. Current problems in dif
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of diffuse nutrient loading on wate
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● Introducing full nutrient budge
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following scenario 1, and scenario
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Ecological Restoration Targets 203
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This chapter draws on two examples
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(Firbank, 2005; Potter and Tilzey,
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growth in the export market has com
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the use of larger amounts of agroch
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need to establish partnerships with
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Social, Environmental and Economic
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adaptation to environment genetic b
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sequencing of 10, 000 non-redundant
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transfer of nutrients and micro-org
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genotypic value, and EBV 67-68 germ
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livestock transgenics for agricultu
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quantitative genetics use 66-69 sys
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speciesism 35 sperm-mediated gene t
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water quality EU Water Framework Di
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