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Contents<br />

Contributors vii<br />

Acknowledgements ix<br />

Introduction xi<br />

David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel and Shaun Coffey<br />

1. <strong>Redesigning</strong> <strong>Animal</strong> <strong>Agriculture</strong>: a Systemic Perspective<br />

Richard Bawden<br />

1<br />

2. Maintaining Vibrant Rural Communities<br />

Margaret Alston<br />

18<br />

3. Ethics on the Frontiers of Livestock Science<br />

Paul B. Thompson<br />

30<br />

4. The Impact of Genomics on Livestock Production<br />

Ross Tellam<br />

46<br />

5. Precision <strong>Animal</strong> Breeding<br />

Kishore C. Prayaga and Antonio Reverter<br />

65<br />

6. Germ Cell Transplantation – a Novel Approach to<br />

‘Designer’ <strong>Animal</strong>s?<br />

Ina Dobrinski and Jonathan R. Hill<br />

81<br />

7. Cloning and Transgenesis to Redesign Livestock<br />

David N. Wells and Goetz Laible<br />

94<br />

8. Transforming Livestock with Transgenics: is Designed<br />

Resistance to Viral Diseases the Way Forward?<br />

Tim Doran and Luke Lambeth<br />

121<br />

9. Towards an Integrated Approach to Stochastic Process-based<br />

Modelling: with Applications to <strong>Animal</strong> Behaviour<br />

and Spatio-temporal Spread<br />

Glenn Marion, David M. Walker, Alex Cook,<br />

David L. Swain and Mike R. Hutchings<br />

144<br />

v

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