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PAPERBACK price:$46.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Crop Issues and Policies The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System Other Related Titles Livestock (1993) Board on Agriculture (BOA) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Abbreviations." Livestock. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1993. Please select a format: Page 253   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 253 Front Matter (R1-R16) Executive Summary (1-20) 1 The Need to Conserve Livestock Genetic Resources (21-48) 2 Essential Conservation Considerations (49-62) 3 Measurement and Use of Genetic Variation (63-76) 4 New Technology and Its Impact on Conservation (77-96) 5 National Programs (97-110) 6 International Programs and a Global Mechanism (111-130) References (131-140) Appendix A: Global Status of Livestock and Poultry Species (141-170) Appendix B: Embryo Transfer: An Assessment of the Risks of Disease Transmission (171-214) Appendix C: Animal Genetic Resources: Sperm (215-244) Glossary (245-252) Abbreviations (253-254) Authors (255-258) Index (259-277)

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Abbreviations AB Artificial breeding ALPA Asociacion Latinoamericana de Produccion Animal (Latin American Association of Animal Production) AMBC American Minor Breeds Conservancy, United States CAB Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, England CENARGEN Centro Nacional de Recursos Geneticos (National Center for Genetic Resources), Brazil CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, United States COAG Committee on Agriculture (FAO) DIMDI Deutsches Institut fur Medizinische Dokumentation und Information (German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information), Germany DNA deoxyribonucleic acid EAAP European Association for Animal Production, Italy EMBRAPA Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Brazil FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy IBAR Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources, Kenya IBPGR International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Italy ILCA International Livestock Center for Africa, Ethiopia . ~ 253

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254 / Abbreviations ILRAD International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, Kenya IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Switzerland MHC major histocompatibility complex mtDNA mitochondrial DNA Ne effective population size OAU Organization of African Unity, Ethiopia 32p a radioactive isotope of phosphorus RBST Rare Breeds Survival Trust, England RFLP restriction fragment length polymorphism SABRAO Society for the Advancement of Breeding Researches in Asia and Oceania, Malaysia UNEP United Nations Environment Program, Kenya VNTR variable number of tandem repeats

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