Part I. Problems and Issues Associated with Poultry Breeding
1. Industrial Perspective on Problems and Issues Associated with Poultry Breeding / James A. Arthur and Gerard A.A. Albers
2. Growth and Reproduction Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Broiler Meat Production / E. Decuypere [and others]
3. Skeletal Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production / Colin C. Whitehead [and others]
4. Meat Quality Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production / Herve Remignon and Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval
5. Behaviour Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production / J.B. Kjaer and J.A. Mench
6. Genotype-Environment Interactions : Problems Associated with Selection for Increased Production / P.K. Mathur
Part II. Breeding Strategies and Objectives
7. Breeding Objectives and Selection Strategies for Layer Production / A.F. Groen
8. Breeding Objectives and Selection Strategies for Broiler Production / Derek Emmerson
9. Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Breeding Strategies for Layers / B. Besbes and V. Ducrocq
10. Application of Mixed Model Methodology in Breeding Strategies for Meat-type Birds / Stanislaw Wfxyk and Jan Jankowski
11. Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Poultry Breeding : Estimation of Genetic Parameters / Tomasz Szwaczkowski
12. Use of Mixed Model Methodology in Poultry Breeding : Assumptions, Limitations and Concerns of BLUP-based Selection Programmes / Margaret Quinton
13. Direct Selection for Improvement of Animal Well-being / J.M. Faure, W. Bessei and R.B. Jones
14. Indirect Selection for Improvement of Animal Well-being / W.M. Muir
15. Genetic Diversity and Conservation of Poultry / Mary E. Delany
Part III. Disease Resistance and Transmission
16. Progress and Prospects in Resistance to Disease / U. Kuhnlein, S.E. Aggrey and D. Zadworny
17. Genetics of the Immune System / J. Plachy, P. Kaiser and K. Hala
18. Genetic Resistance and Transmission of Avian Bacteria and Viruses / N. Bumstead
19. Genetic Resistance and Transmission of Avian Parasites / Marie-Helene Pinard-van der Laan, Hyun S. Lillehoj and James J. Zhu
20. Selection for Disease Resistance : Conventional Breeding for Resistance to Bacteria and Viruses / C. Beaumont [and others]
21. Selection for Disease Resistance : Molecular Genetic Techniques / Hans H. Cheng
22. Selection for Disease Resistance : Direct Selection on the Immune Response / Susan J. Lamont [and others]
Part IV. The Use of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Poultry
23. Genetic Markers : Prospects and Applications in Genetic Analysis / Samuel E. Aggrey and Ronald Okimoto
24. Designs and Methods to Detect QTL for Production Traits Based on Mapped Genetic Markers / Johan A.M. van Arendonk and Henk Bovenhuis
25. Designs and Methods to Detect QTL for Production Traits Based on Random Genetic Models / Nengjun Yi and Shizhong Xu
26. Structural Genomics : Integrating Linkage, Physical and Sequence Maps / Martien A.M. Groenen and Richard P.M.A. Crooijmans
27. Incorporating Molecular Information in Breeding Programmes : Methodology / Rohan L. Fernando and Liviu R. Totir
28. Incorporating Molecular Information in Breeding Programmes : Applications and Limitations / W.M. Muir
29. Comparative Genomics / David W. Burt
30. Functional Genomics : Development and Gene Regulation / John Killefer and Hakan Kocamis
31. Expressed Sequence Tags, DNA Chip Technology and Gene Expression Profiling / Larry A. Cogburn, Robin Morgan and Joan Burnside
32. DNA Polymorphisms in Functional Genes / U. Kuhnlein [and others]
33. Strategies for the Production of Transgenic Chickens / James N. Petitte
34. The Future of Molecular Genetics in Poultry Breeding / Jerry B. Dodgson.