Ecology falls into two complimentary sections: community ecology (synecology) and single-species ecology (autecology). This chapter examines general aspects of autecology, including, species abundance, competition and speciation, and relevant genetics.

This chapter contains questions about the relationship between the genetics and ecology of organisms (including plants and animals), their adaptations to the environment, and their evolution.

This chapter outlines some of the basic principles in genetics and attempts to illustrate the link between genes and the performance of individual farm animals, or populations of them.

The purpose of this final chapter is to explore some of the key challenges facing farm animal production in general, and animal breeding and genetics in particular, and to discuss how livestock breeders might respond to ensure wide societal and animal benefits.

This chapter describes the interaction of environment with genetics to generate phenotype in horses and highlights the methods for determining heritability and breeding values among horses.

This chapter provides information on breeding and genetics of cucurbits. Manual pollination, tissue culture, interspecific hybridization, cytology, genes, genomics, and historical and novel breeding techniques are discussed.

This chapter describes the evolution, taxonomy, genetics and conservation of domestic and wild Equus species.

This chapter describes recent knowledge on horse genomics, including sequencing, coding and non-codning DNA/RNA, genetic variation, sex chromosomes, mitochondrial genetics, functional genomics, epigenetics and transcription.

This chapter describes the genetic risk factors and mode of inheritance of hereditary diseases in horses.

This chapter presents research findings on the genetics of susceptibility of domestic ruminants to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection.