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      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Bailey, Ernest (Ernest), author. | Brooks, Samantha A., 1979- author.

      Title: Horse genetics / Ernest Bailey, PhD, University of Kentucky, Samantha Brooks, PhD, University of Florida.

      Description: Third edition. | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston : CABI, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Completely updated and revised, the third edition of this essential textbook describes the basic genetics of the horse including coat colour, parentage, medical and population genetics, cytogenetics, performance, breeding systems and genetic conservation, as well as the many recent advances in genomics”-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019048243 (print) | LCCN 2019048244 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786392589 (hardback) | ISBN 9781786392596 (paperback) | ISBN 9781786392602 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786392619 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Horses--Breeding. | Horses--Genetics.

      Classification: LCC SF291 .B63 2020 (print) | LCC SF291 (ebook) | DDC 636.1--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019048243

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019048244

      References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing.

      ISBN-13:

      9781786392589 (hardback)

      9781786392596 (paperback)

      9781786392602 (ePDF)

      9781786392619 (ePub)

      Commissioning Editor: Alexandra Lainsbury

      Editorial Assistant: Lauren Davies

      Production Editor: James Bishop

      Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India

      Printed and bound in the UK by Bell and Bain, Glasgow

      Contents

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

1 Nature of Horse Breeds

2 Evolution and Domestication of Horses

3 Equus

4 The Fundamentals of Genetics

5 The Language and Patterns of Genetics

       6 Horse Genomics

       7 Black, Bay, and Chestnut (Extension and Agouti)

       8 Color Diluting Genes

       9 Tobiano, White, Sabino, and Roan (KIT)

       10 Frame Overo and Splashed White

       11 Leopard Complex Spotting

       12 Gray, Brindle, Tiger Eye, and Curly

       13 Putting it All Together: Color By Design

       14 Parentage Testing

       15 Blood Groups and Neonatal Isoerythrolysis

       16 Medical Genetics

       17 Cytogenetics

       18 Major Genes, Quantitative Trait Loci, and Marker Assisted Selection

       19 Genetics of Complex Traits

       20 Pedigrees and Breeding Schemes

       21 Microbiome and Mitochondria

       22 Where Do We Go From Here?

       Index

Preface to the First Edition

      Basic genetics textbooks seldom mention horses. Horse breeders tell me that they cannot relate fruit flies, corn, and mice to practical horse breeding. This book aims to provide a good overview of genetic principles using horses as the primary examples. I have sifted