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Poultry
Genetics,
Breeding and Biotechnology
Edited by Sammy Aggrey
and Bill Muir
$225
CABI Publishing |
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Book shows breadth of poultry science
Chicken isn’t just for dinner anymore. As Poultry Genetics,
Breeding and Biotechnology shows, biotechnology has taken this
lowly bird from the cutting board to the cutting edge.
Edited by Sammy Aggrey, a UGA quantitative and molecular geneticist,
and Bill Muir, a Purdue geneticist, the textbook shows two distinct
poultry science communities: those who study the chicken as an agricultural
commodity and those who study the chicken to better understand human
disease.
“In the 1950s, the problem was producing enough chickens,”
Aggrey says. “Over the past 50 years, we solved that problem
but created new problems—mostly breeding problems. The first
part of the book is about those problems and issues that need to
be solved.”
The textbook was edited in cyberspace since contributors hailed
from around the world. Even the editors never met face-to-face as
they compiled the book. The result, Aggrey believes, is “fantastic.”
“There is a lot of appeal for everyone in the biotech fields,
including those working on humans,” he says.
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