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Essential Reading
The most successful students and practitioners of beef cattle breeding will be familiar with both historical and current scientific literature. While much of it is intended for researchers familiar with the highly technical methods involved in modern animal breeding, there are many works that translate this information into more generally accessible papers for beef cattle producers and other industry professionals. Many extension specialists and scientists have produced manuscripts that provide important incite.
This Essential Reading wiki is divided into two general categories, essential reading written for industry professionals and important technical papers written as part of the scientific literature. Readers and Guidelines wiki contributors are encouraged to add to the lists on this page. If you do not have authors' access to the wiki then please contact any member of the BIF Guidelines Drafting Committee to add your essential reading contributions.
Essential Reading for Industry Professionals
Seminal Scientific Literature
Bourdon, R. M. and J. S. Brinks 1987. Simulated efficiency of range beef production. I. Growth and milk production.Journal of Animal Science 65: 943–955.
Bourdon, R. M. 1988. Bovine nirvana - from the perspective of a modeler and purebred breeder. J. Anim. Sci. v66:8 1892-1898.
Bulmer, M. G. 1971. The effect of selection on genetic variability. Am. Nat. 105:201–11.
Crow, J. F., M. Kimura. 1970. An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory. New York: Harper & Row.
Darwin, C. 1859, 1964. On the origin of species (a facsimile of the First Edition). Harvard Univ. Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dickerson, G. E. 1970. Efficiency of animal production — molding the biological components. Journal of Animal Science 30: 849–859.
Kennedy, B. W., J.H.J. Vanderwerf, and T.H.E. Meuwissen. 1993. Genetic and statistical properties of residual feed-intake J. Anim. Sci., 71 (1993), pp. 3239-3250.
Falconer, D., T. F. C. Mackay. 1996. Introduction to quantitative genetics. Longman. Edinburgh.
Fisher, R. A. 1918. The correlations between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance. Trans R Soc Edinb 52:399–433.
Gianola, D., Fernando R. L. 1986. Bayesian methods in animal breeding theory. J Anim Sci 63:217-244.
Harris, D. L. 1970. Breeding for efficiency in livestock production: defining the economic objectives. Journal of Animal Science 30: 860–865.
Harris, D. L., S. Newman. 1994. Breeding for profit: synergism between genetic improvement and livestock production (a review). J Anim Sci. 1994 Aug;72(8):2178-200.
Hazel, L. N. 1943. The genetic basis for constructing selection indexes. Genetics 28:476–490.
Henderson, C. R. 1964. Selection index and expected genetic advance. In: Hanson WD, Robison HF (eds) Statistical genetics and plant breeding. NAS, NRC, Washington, pp 141–163
Henderson, C. R. 1975. Best linear unbiased estimation and prediction under a selection model. Biometrics 31:423–49.
Henderson, C. R. 1976. A rapid method for computing the inverse of a relationship matrix. J Dairy Sci 58:1727–1730.
Henderson, C. R. 1984. Applications of linear models in animal breeding. Guelph: University of Guelph.
Hohenboken, W. D. 1988. Bovine nirvana - from the perspective of an experm=imentalist. J. Anim. Sci. v66:8 1885-1891.
Lush, J. L. 1937. Animal breeding plans. Collegiate Press, Ames.
Mendel, J. G. 1866. Versuche u¨ber Plflanzenhybriden Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Bru¨nn, Bd. IV fu¨r das Jahr, 1865 Abhandlungen: 3–47. English translation at http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html.
Meuwissen, T. H. El, B. H. Hayes, M. E. Goddard. 2001. Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker maps. Genetics 157: 1819–1829.
Quaas, R. L., and E. J. Pollak. 1980. Mixed model methodology for farm and ranch beef cattle testing programs. J. Anim. Sc. 52:1277-1287.
Sanders, J. O., and Cartwright, T. C. 1979a. A general cattle production systems model. 1. Structure of the model. Agricultural Systems 4: 217–227.
Sanders, J. O., and Cartwright, T. C. 1979b. A general cattle production systems model. 2. Procedures used for simulating animal performance. Agricultural Systems 4: 289–309.
Wright S. 1922. Coefficients of inbreeding and relationships. Am. Nat. 56:330–38.
