ABSTRACT
Agriculture is changing rapidly and has been inuenced by social, political, economic, environmental, and climatic factors. The need to make agriculture more sustainable is increasingly being recognized along with the fact that agriculture has many different functions in addition to food production. Advancements in the fundamental understanding of
CONTENTS
21.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 519 21.2 Livestock Genomic Resources.......................................................................................... 521
21.2.1 The Omics of Livestock Species ............................................................................ 521 21.2.2 Current Sequencing Status of Livestock Species............................................... 522
21.2.2.1 Cattle ......................................................................................................... 528 21.2.2.2 Chicken ..................................................................................................... 531 21.2.2.3 Sheep ......................................................................................................... 532 21.2.2.4 Pig .............................................................................................................. 532 21.2.2.5 Rabbit ........................................................................................................ 532 21.2.2.6 Horse ......................................................................................................... 532 21.2.2.7 Buffalo ....................................................................................................... 532
21.2.3 Genomic Resources in Livestock Species: Current Statistics ..........................533 21.2.4 Comparative Mapping in Livestock ....................................................................535
21.3 Genomic Resources of Agriculturally Important Insects and Pests ..........................535 21.3.1 Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)—Model Insect .............................................535 21.3.2 Genomic Resources on Agriculturally Benecial Insects ................................ 537
