Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Industrial Perspective on Problems and Issues Associated with Poultry Breeding -- 2 Growth and Reproduction Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Broiler Meat Production -- 3 Skeletal Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production -- 4 Meat Quality Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production -- 5 Behaviour Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production -- 6 Genotype-Environment Interactions: Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production -- 7 Breeding Objectives and Selection Strategies for Layer Production -- 8 Breeding Objectives and Selection Strategies for Broiler Production -- 9 Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Breeding Strategies for Layers -- 10 Application of Mixed Model Methodology in Breeding Strategies for Meat-type Birds -- 11 Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Poultry Breeding: Estimation of Genetic Parameters -- 12 Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Poultry Breeding: Assumptions, Limitations and Concerns of BLUP-based Selection Programmes -- 13 Direct Selection for Improvement of Animal Well-being -- 14 Indirect Selection for Improvement of Animal Well-being -- 15 Genetic Diversity and Conservation of Poultry -- 16 Progress and Prospects in Resistance to Disease -- 17 Genetics of the Immune System -- 18 Genetic Resistance and Transmission of Avian Bacteria and Viruses -- 19 Genetic Resistance and Transmission of Avian Parasites -- 20 Selection for Disease Resistance: Conventional Breeding for Resistance to Bacteria and Viruses -- 21 Selection for Disease Resistance: Molecular Genetic Techniques -- 22 Selection for Disease Resistance: Direct Selection on the Immune Response -- 23 Genetic Markers: Prospects and Applications in Genetic Analysis ∑= Color Composite Default screen.

24 Designs and Methods to Detect QTL for Production Traits Based on Mapped Genetic Markers -- 25 Designs and Methods to Detect QTL for Production Traits Based on Random Genetic Models -- 26 Structural Genomics: Integrating Linkage, Physical and Sequence Maps -- 27 Incorporating Molecular Information in Breeding Programmes: Methodology -- 28 Incorporating Molecular Information in Breeding Programmes: Applications and Limitations -- 29 Comparative Genomics -- 30 Functional Genomics: Development and Gene Regulation -- 31 Expressed Sequence Tags, DNA Chip Technology and Gene Expression Profiling -- 32 DNA Polymorphisms in Functional Genes -- 33 Strategies for the Production of Transgenic Chickens -- 34 The Future of Molecular Genetics in Poultry Breeding -- Index.