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Course: Biology of Animal Breeding

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Course title Biology of Animal Breeding
Course code KGZB/BAH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Čítek Jindřich, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Sense and perspectives of livestock production. Process of origination, phylogeny and domestication of animal with regards to their future utilization. Categories of animal, theory of breed and lower taxonomic and breeders entities. Characteristic and classification of traits and features, biological principles of morphological traits - exterior, carcass, hair, pigmentation or colouring. Biological principles of physiological traits - constitution (habit), condition, reproduction, growth and development, eyrly maturity, meat and milk production and others. Basic components of breeding work. Genetic parametersof traits and features by individual and population. Breeding value and sources for its estimation. Principles of theory of selection - genetic improvement and its factors, means, forms, selection modes, methods of selection and their utilization. Classification of methods, used in animal breeding, sense and use of single forms, including methods of hybridization. Substance of selection and hybridization methods.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
  • Preparation for classes - 25 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 40 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give teoretical principles of farm animal husbandry with delimination of their relationship to economic usability for different types of production.
They know the phylogeny and domestication of farm animals. They know the animal systematic, the theory of breeds. Morphological and physiological fundamentals of animal performance. They command the basics of breeding, genetic parameters of traits, breeding value, selection. Methods of breeding incl. hybridization, selection and hybridization programes.
Prerequisites
Secondary school range of knowledge of biological disciplines

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined exam

Understanding the nature and possibilities of regulating the basic biological properties of livestock with the aim of their optimal use in the various technologies applied in practical breeding. Seminar work.
Recommended literature
  • Eckert, R. et al. Animal physiology. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 2002, 736 s. ISSN 0-7167-3863-5.
  • Garrick D., Ruvinsky, A. The Genetics of Cattle. Oxon, New York, CABI Publishing 2014, 634 s..
  • Kuby Immunology (Eighth edition) W. H. Freeman 2018, 944 pp..
  • Leeson, S., Summers, J.D. Broiler breeder production. Nottingham: University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1904761-79-2..
  • Leruste, H. Assessing welfare of veal calves on farms. Belgium, Wageningen University, 2014. 142 pp..
  • Lesk A. Introduction to Genomics. Oxford Univ. Press. 2017..
  • Millar P., Lauvergne J. J., Dolling, C. Mendelian inheritance in cattle. Wageningen Pers, EAAP Publication No 101 2000, 590 s..
  • Moberg, G., Mench, A. The Biology of Animal Stress: Basic Principles and Implication for Animal Welfare. London, CABI Publishing, 2000, 384 s..
  • Montgomery, Douglas C., Runger, George C. Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers. Wiley, 2007 (4. vydání, ISBN 978-0-471-74589-1), 2013 (6. vydání, ISBN 978-1-118-53971-2).
  • Philips, C.J. Principles of catle production. UK: CABI Publ. 2000. ISBN 0-85199-438-5..
  • Rotschild M., Ruvinsky A. The Genetics of the Pig. Oxon, New York, CABI Publishing 2011, 520 s..
  • Ruvinsky A., Marshall Graves J. A. (eds.). Mammalian Genomics. Wallingford, Cambridge, CABI Publishing 2005, 600 pp..
  • Samuelsson, Tore. Genomics and bioinformatics: an introduction to programming tools for life scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012..
  • Whittemore, C.T. Whittemore's science and practice of pig production. UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. ISBN 978-1- 4051-2448-5..
  • Willmer, P., Stone, G., Johnston, I. Environmental Physiology of Animals.Blackwell United Kingdom, Publishing, second edition, 754 p. ISBN 1-4051-0724-3..
  • Womack J. E. (ed.). Bovine Genomics. Willey-Blackwell, 2012, 271 pp..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture and Technology Study plan (Version): Multifunctional Agriculture (2016) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 25.04.2024 13:31. Data created for academic year 2024/2025