Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greenwood, Paul L. (Editor), Bell, Alan W. (Editor), Vercoe, Philip E. (Editor), Viljoen, Gerrit J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal genetics.; Life Sciences.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.

Prenatal life is the period of maximal development in animals, and it is well recognised that factors that alter development can have profound effects on the embryonic, fetal and postnatal animal. Scientists involved in research on livestock productivity have for decades studied postnatal consequenc...