SOME BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL BREEDING

Investigation of biological characteristics and breeding potentials of some species of surgeonfish (Family: Acanthuridae) inhabiting the Persian Gulf for exploitation in the ornamental fish breeding industry

The coral reefs of the Persian Gulf are among the richest coral reserves systems in the world. These valuable habitats have a remarkable diversity of aquatic species, especially fish. One of the important ecological groups living in coral reefs of the Persian Gulf is surgeonfish (Family: Acanthuridae), which have been considered by researchers in many studies. These fish can be introduced as br...

Precision animal breeding.

We accept that we are responsible for the quality of life of animals in our care. We accept that the activities of man affect all the living things with which we share this planet. But we are slow to realize that as a result we have a duty of care for all living things. That duty extends to the breeding of animals for which we are responsible. When animals are bred by man for a purpose, the aim...

Selection from Animal Breeding

Principles of Animal Virology

pertinent background information. Since new data are usually available to the author only from his own laboratory, work of others is rarely covered adequately. In the course of publication the novelty of the studies reported in a symposium is inevitably lost, the give and take of the discussion is seldom reproduced and one is left with a disconnected group of papers, each emphasizing work in on...

Principles of Animal Virology

other intellectual, in our population are discussed, and a possible resolution to the conflict is suggested. There are some details of this book whose lack of accuracy might disturb the specialized reader, and this reviewer, who is an obstetrician and gyne-cologist, only hopes that those areas in which he is less informed are more accurate than the sections dealing with aspects of his specialty...