This collection reviews the latest research on dairy cattle genetics and advanced methods of genetic evaluation and selection.

After an overview of genetic improvements achieved so far, Part 1 assesses the problem of inbreeding and genetic diversity in modern dairy cattle as well as opportunities for crossbreeding. Part 2 then goes onto review research on targeting non-production traits such as fertility, feed conversion efficiency and methane emissions as well as resistance to disease and resilience to heat stress.

Part 3 then surveys the latest techniques and advances in genomic selection (GS) in such areas as functional annotation and use of sequence variants to improve genomic prediction, as well as developments in genetic evaluation (GE). The final part of the book reviews developments in embryo technologies, gene editing and the way new techniques are being integrated in practice into dairy breeding programmes.

Contributions by: Allison Fleming, Tatiane Chud, Luiz Brito, Francesca Malchiodi, Christine Baes, Filippo Miglior, Bayode Makanjuola, Larry Schaeffer, Kor Oldenbroek, Christian Maltecca, F. Tiezzi, Bradley J. Heins, Peter Amer, Tim Byrne, Mekonnen Haile-Mariam, Mike Coffey, Oscar González-Recio, Alejandro Saborio-Montero, Adrián López-García, Beatriz Delgado, Cristina Óvilo, John Cole, Christa Egger-Danner, B. Heringstad, Nicolas Gengler, Hélène Soyeurt, Thuy T. T. Nguyen, Roel Veerkamp, Mathijs van Pelt, Luiz F. Brito, Hinayah R. Oliveira, Fabyano F. Silva, Flavio Schenkel, James Koltes, Francisco Peñagaricano, Matt Littlejohn, Chad Harland, Joel Ira Weller, Peter Sullivan, Raphael Mrode, Trudee Fair, Pat Lonergan, Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Amy E. Young, Didier Boichard