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Grape pomace in equine nutrition: effect on antioxidant status

Grape pomace in equine nutrition: effect on antioxidant status

Taking JEMCA to the world stage

2021 is a landmark year for the Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association (JEMCA)! In the last 12 months we moved from self-publishing to the professional publisher Wageningen Academic Publishers (WAP). This is intended to gain efficiency in the submission, reviewing and publishing process, and also to get better indexed and evaluated, the final aim being to link authors and readers, promoting dissemination of science, improving knowledge on vectors and addressing related challenges.

Insects as sustainable feed and food

Submitted 2020-07-06 | Accepted 2020-07-31 | Available 2020-12-01 https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2020.23.mi-fpap.214-216 Insects are one of the proposed responses to the increasing request of alternative feed/food productions with high production yield and low environmental impact. Insect production offers a new sustainable alternative for unexploited or underexploited resources, in accordance with the waste hierarchy principles. Insects constitute a reliable alternative or addition to feed due to their nutritional characteristics (e.g. protein content, amino acid profile and/or digestibility levels). Edible insects may be part of human foods mostly as ingredients in already well-known products or integration of insect-based foods into existing diets. In the near future research is needed to increase knowledges and support the insect industry to a considerably scale up to reach competitive price and high-quality products. Keywords: entomophagy, novel food, environment, protein, fat Reference Finke, M. D., Rojo, S., Roos, N., van Huis, A., & Yen, A. L. (2015). The European Food Safety Authority scientific opinion on a risk profile related to production and consumption of insects as food and feed. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 1(4), 245–247. https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2015.x006 Gasco, L., Biancarosa, I., & Liland, N. S. (2020). From waste to feed: A review of recent knowledge on insects as producers of protein and fat for animal feeds. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2020.03.003 Kroeckel, S., Harjes, A.-G. E., Roth, I., Katz, H., Wuertz, S., Susenbeth, A., & Schulz, C. (2012). When a turbot catches a fly: Evaluation of a pre-pupae meal of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) as fish meal substitute — Growth performance and chitin degradation in juvenile turbot (Psetta maxima). Aquaculture, 364–365, 345–352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2012.08.041 Lock, E. J., Biancarosa, I., & Gasco, L. (2018). Insects as raw materials in compound feed for aquaculture. In Halloran, A. et al. (eds.) Edible Insects in Sustainable Food Systems. Springer International Publishing (pp. 263–276). Mancini, S., Moruzzo, R., Riccioli, F., & Paci, G. (2019). European consumers’ readiness to adopt insects as food. A review. Food Research International, 122, 661–678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2019.01.041 Murefu, T. R., Macheka, L., Musundire, R., & Manditsera, F. A. (2019). Safety of wild harvested and reared edible insects: A review. Food Control, 101, 209–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.03.003 Nischalke, S., Wagler, I., Tanga, C., Allan, D., Phankaew, C., Ratompoarison, C., Razafindrakotomamonjy, A., & Kusia, E. (2020). How to turn collectors of edible insects into mini-livestock farmers: Multidimensional sustainability challenges to a thriving industry. Global Food Security, 26, 100376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100376 Sogari, G., Amato, M., Biasato, I., Chiesa, S., & Gasco, L. (2019). The potential role of insects as feed: A multi-perspective review. Animals, 9(4), 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040119 van Huis, A. (2013). Potential of insects as food and feed in assuring food security. Annual Review of Entomology, 58, 563-583. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153704 van Huis, A. (2020). Insects as food and feed, a new emerging agricultural sector: a review. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 6(1), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2019.0017 van Huis, A., & Oonincx, D. G. A. B. (2017). The environmental sustainability of insects as food and feed. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 37(5), 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-017-0452-8 van Huis, A., & Tomberlin, J. K. (2017). Insects as food and feed : from production to consumption. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. van Huis, A., Van Itterbeeck, J., Klunder, H., Mertens, E., Halloran, A., Muir, G., & Vantomme, P. (2013). Edible insects. Future prospects for food and feed security. In FAO Forestry Paper (Vol. 171). Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf

Inbreeding evaluation in Latvian local cattle breeds

Submitted 2020-06-26 | Accepted 2020-08-18 | Available 2020-12-01 https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2020.23.mi-fpap.52-57 In this study, inbreeding and effective population size of the Latvian gene conservation cattle breeds Latvian Brown (LB) and Latvian Blue (LZ) were analysed. The study was based on the pedigree data of 319 LB and 712 LZ cows that were alive at the time of data selection. The inbreeding level in LB and LZ has been increasing during the last decade and at the end of the year 2019, it was 2.61% and 5.20% for LB and LZ, respectively. The average increase of inbreeding from 2010 to 2019 was 1.80% for LB and 2.26% for LZ. The proportions of inbred animals with an inbreeding level greater than 10% were 0.60% and 2.14% in LB and LZ, respectively. Effective population size based on the rate of inbreeding decreased and was close or within the minimum range of recommended effective population size. The current study demonstrates that the inbreeding has increased, and the effective population size decreased in both populations. Therefore, the breeding organizations have to monitor and control the rate of inbreeding in LB and LZ populations over time. Keywords: inbreeding, Latvian Brown, Latvian Blue, native breed References Addo, S., Schäler, J., Hinrichs, D. and Thaller, G. E. (2017). Genetic diversity and ancestral history of the German Angler and the Red-and-White dual-purpose cattle breeds assessed through pedigree analysis. Agricultural Sciences, 8, 1033-1047. https://doi.org/10.4236/as.2017.89075 Doekes, H. P., Veerkamp, R. F., Bijma, P., de Jong, G., Hiemstra, S. J. and Windig, J. J. (2019). Inbreeding depression due to recent and ancient inbreeding in Dutch Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle. Genetics Selection Evolution, 51(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-019-0497-z FAO. ©2019. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS). Retrieved May 2, 2020 from http://www.fao.org/dad-is. GrÄ«slis, Z. (2006). Blue cows in Vidzeme. Jelgava. BÅ SA “Zilā govs”, 1–36. In Latvian. GrÄ«slis, Z. and Å imkevica, D. (2018). Latvian Blue selection. BÅ SA “Zilā govs”, Jelgava, 1–43. In Latvian. GrÄ«slis, Z., Markey, L. and Zutere, R. (2005). The inbreeding analysis in Latvian Blue cow population. Proceedings of the 11th Baltic animal breeding and genetics conference, Lithuania, 65–69. Groeneveld, E., Westhuizen, B.v.d., Maiwashe, A., Voordewind, F. and Ferraz, J. B. S. (2009). POPREP: a generic report for population management. Genetics and Molecular Research, 8(3), 1158–1178. https://doi.org/10.4238/vol8-3gmr648 Jonkus, D., Paura, L. and Cielava, L. (2020). Longevity and milk production efficiency of Latvian local breeds during last decades. Agronomy Research, 18(S2), 1316–1322. https://doi.org/10.15159/ar.20.064 LDC. (2019). Latvian brown cow conservation program from 2019 and nearest future. Retrieved May 26, 2020 from https://www.ldc.gov.lv/upload/doc/doc20.pdf. In Latvian Mäki-Tanila, A., Fernandez, J., Toro, M. and Meuwissen, T. (2010) Assessment and management or genetic variation. In Mäki-Tanila, A. et al. (eds.) Local cattle breeds in Europe. Development of policies and strategies for self-sustaining breeds. The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers (pp. 98–119) Mc Parland, S., Kearney, F. and Berry, D. P. (2009). Purging of inbreeding depression within the Irish Holstein-Friesian population. Genetics Selection Evolution, 41, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-41-16 Mc Parland, S., Kearney, J. F., Rath, M. and Berry, D. P. (2007). Inbreeding effects on milk production, calving performance, fertility, and conformation in Irish Holstein-Friesians. Journal of Dairy Science, 90(9), 4411–4419. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2007-0227 Oldenbroek, K. and Van der Waaij, L. (2015). Animal Breeding and Genetics for BSc students. Centre for Genetic Resources and Animal Breeding and Genomics Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. Retrieved May 26, 2020 from https://wiki.groenkennisnet.nl/display/TAB/ Sørensen, A. C., Sørensen, M. K. and Berg, P. (2005). Inbreeding in Danish dairy cattle breeds. Journal of Dairy Science, 88(5), 1865–1872. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)72861-7 Zutere, R., GrÄ«slis, Z. and Sjakste, T. 2006. Breeding programs in Latvian livestock. Proceedings of the 12th Baltic animal breeding conference. Jurmala, Latvia, 6–13.   Â

Editorial

It’s been a landmark year for the Journal of Applied Animal Nutrition (JAAN)! In the last 12 months we moved publishers (to Wageningen Academic Publishers (WAP) from Cambridge University Press) and I would like to thank all the staff at both these august institutions for their assistance during this transfer. For me, it’s been a time of getting to grips with new software and systems, but this has all settled down well. WAP have been very active in new marketing campaigns, putting out the message of what JAAN is offering to those working in all animal nutrition, which is to provide a platform for publishing both academic and commercial research work in the public domain for all species, including companion animals, wild and zoo species.

Performance evaluation of induced mutant lines of black gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper)

Performance evaluation of induced mutant lines of black gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper)

Sustainability Reporting of Leading Global Universities in Asia, Europe, and USA

Sustainability Reporting of Leading Global Universities in Asia, Europe, and USA

Learning to make change: developing innovation competence for recreating the African university of the 21st century Paul Kibwika, Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006

Learning to make change: developing innovation competence for recreating the African university of the 21st century Paul Kibwika, Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006

The use of new technologies in horse selection

Received: 2018-09-12 | Accepted: 2018-11-27 | Available online: 2018-12-31 https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2018.21.04.186-189 Most successful selection strategies are not in use in horse selection. This study describes the use of current strategies of selection in horse and tries to answers why well known, scientifically proven selection strategies are still not implemented. In the era of genomic selection (GS) in animal breeding, decision making in horse selection, even classical values (BV), are not fully taken advantage of. Breeding organizations (BO) which implement BVs as selection criteria in their programs show great success in genetic gain. However, a horse's achievements and the popularity of its relatives still plays an important role in selection level. Genomic based selection tools in horse have limitations in quantitative traits since it is difficult to establish reference population. Mendelian traits have been studied for several years, especially those related to horse health and functional longevity (long sport or race careers), yet there are still only a small number of validated mendelian traits offered for horses. The important benefit of GS is the prevention of related mating based on genomic data, in addition to pedigree data. The specialty in horse is the use of cloning. From the point of view of genetic variability, cloning is useful in enabling geldings or non-genetically infertile animals to carry genes to next generations. In sport and race BOs, stallions from foreign BOs are frequently used. In such cases a need for comparable BVs exists. These factors were the motivation behind the establishment of Interstallion 20 years ago. Due to difficulties in BO collaboration, Interstallion has not been as successful as planned. On the whole, it is expected that the sector of horse selection will need to change considerably in the future. Keywords: value, cloning selection, genomic selection, inbreeding, strategies References Arnason, T. (1984) Genetic studies on conformation and performance of Icelandic toelter horses: IV Best linear unbiased prediction of ten correlated traits by use of an animal model. Acta Agric. Scand. 34, 450–462. Broere Jazz (2018) Jazz – one in a million. [Online] Alblasserdam. Available at: http://www.broerejazz.com/en/sperma-bestellen/ [Accessed 12 August 2018]. FMITCHELL07 (2009) Inbreeding to broodmares: an in-depth statistical analysis of the Rasmussen Factor, Part 1 [Online] https://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/inbreeding-to-broodmares-an-in-depth-statistical-analysis-of-the-rasmussen-factor-part-1/ [Accessed 12 August 2018]. Henderson, C. R. (1953) Estimation of variance and covariance components. Biometrics, 9, 226–252. Jorjani, H., Jakobsen, J., Hjerpe, E., Palucci, V., Durr, J. (2012) Status of genomic evaluation in the Brown Swiss populations. Interbull Bull., 46, pp. 46–54. Koenen, E. (2005) Publication of values: Interstallion guidelines. Workshop Use of genetic evaluations in sport horse breeding Warendorf, Germany. [Online] In: Leuven: KU Leuven. Available at: https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/Genlog/livgen/research/interstallion/workshop_docs/koenen1.pdf [Accessed 12 August 2018]. Koenen, E., Aldridge, L.I., Philipsson, J. (2004) An overview of objectives for warmblood sport horses. Livestock Production Science, 88(1-2), pp. 77-84. Liljenstolpe, C. (2009) Horses in Europe. [Online] Maarslet: WBFSH. Available at: http://www.wbfsh.org/files/EU%20Equus%202009.pdf [Accessed 16 August 2018]. Mark, T. (2013) Genomic selection for performance and health http://www.wbfsh.org/files/Thomas_Mark_Genomic_Selection_in_Horse_Breeding_Oct._7th_2013_Warsaw.pdf [Accessed 12 August 2018]. OMIA (2018) Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA). [Online] Maarslet: WBFSH. Available at: http://omia.org/home/ [Accessed 6 September 2018]. Philipsson, J. (2009) Mace for horse evaluations. Interstallion: Workshop Le Pin au Haras, 26th March 2009. [Online. Available at: ] https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/Genlog/livgen/research/interstallion/workshop_LePin/I_MACE%20for%20horse%20evaluations.pdf [Accessed 12 August 2018]. Reed, T. (2018) Johan Knaap on genomic selection – an interview. [Online]. Available at: http://www.irish-warmblood.com/pdf/Johan_Knaap_on_Genomic_Selection.pdf [Accessed 6 September 2018]. Reis, A.P., Palmer, E., Nakhla, M. (2012) Biotechnologies of reproduction in the horse: what has changed? In: Book of Abstracts of the 63 rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science Wageningen. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. Shelbourne Farm. (2018) Cruising Clones. [Online]. Available at: http://www.shelbournefarm.com/stallions/cruising-clones/ [Accessed 6 September 2018]. Stock, K., Quinn Brady, K., Christiansen, K., Viklund, A., Cervantes, I., Ricard, A., Ducro, B., Janssens, S. (2015). Breeding objectives and practices of sport horse studbooks : Results of a worldwide inventory. In: Book of Abstracts of the 66 th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science Wageningen.Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. Stock, K., Viklund, A., Cervantes, I., Ricard, A., Christiansen, K., Vangen, O., Janssens, S. (2018). The role of Interstallion in supporting international sport horse by improved transparency. In: Book of Abstracts of the 69 th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science Wageningen. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. Thoren Hellsten, E. (2008) International Sport Horse Data for Genetic Evaluation. Doctoral Thesis. Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Waikato (2018) Waikato Stud offers a truly world-class stallion line up. [Online]. Available at: https://waikatostud.com/stallions/ [Accessed 6 September 2018]. WBFSH (2018) World federation for sport horses: Breeder and Studbook rankings. [Online]. 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Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education Peter Blaze Corcoran, Joseph P. Weakland, and Arjen E.J. Wals, Wageningen, Netherlands:Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2017

Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education Peter Blaze Corcoran, Joseph P. Weakland, and Arjen E.J. Wals, Wageningen, Netherlands:Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2017 - Volume 34 Issue 3

Precision Livestock Farming and Farmers’ Duties to Livestock

Precision livestock farming (PLF) promises to allow modern, large-scale farms to replicate, at scale, caring farmers who know their animals. PLF refers to a suite of technologies, some only speculative. The goal is to use networked devices to continuously monitor individual animals on large farms, to compare this information to expected norms, and to use algorithms to manage individual animals (e.g. via changes in climate, feeding, or reproductive decisions) automatically. Supporters say this could not only create an artificial version of the partially mythologized image of the good steward caring for his or her animals, but to also improve on it. As one paper in favor of PLF has said, “We can not only replace the farmer’s ‘eyes and ears’ to each individual animal as in the past, but several other variables (infections, physiological variables, stress, etc.) will soon be measurable in practice” (Berckmans, in: Geers, Madec (eds) Livestock production and society, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, pp 287–292, 2006). Yet these methods of monitoring and control raise a host of ethical issues, including alienation of laborers, further consolidation of farms, and further cover for meat consumption (a possibly independent ethical problem depending on one’s views of eating meat). In this paper, I will address these ethical issues, and suggest a different, under-examined concern: namely, that though PLF may indeed improve the lives of livestock, and the sustainability of livestock operations, it is possible that it will do so at the cost of a loss of identity and relationships for farmers, as well as for the animals in their charge.

The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate. Ethical and Social Considerations on Killing Animals Edited by FLB Meijiboom and EN Stassen (2016). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, NL-6700, AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 272 pages Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-260-3). Price €70.00.

The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate. Ethical and Social Considerations on Killing Animals Edited by FLB Meijiboom and EN Stassen (2016). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, NL-6700, AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 272 pages Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-260-3). Price €70.00. - Volume 26 Issue 1

Editorial – Novel approaches for improving safety, health benefits and sustainability of grain based foods

Improving the safety of food products and enhancing beneficial health effects is a necessity and a major challenge. In addition to well established practices, often laid down in ISO based systems and procedures for guaranteeing safety and a constant product quality, new approaches are explored in a wide range of research and development activities - triggered by, for instance, the preference for applying ingredients and processes considered as natural, the need for finding high value application of by-products and by many other factors from practice driven to curiosity driven ones. This issue of Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods includes a set of papers showing a range of novel approaches, that also may contribute to limit wastes and increase food security and sustainability. © 2016 Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Intergenerational Learning and Transformative Leadership for Sustainable Futures by Peter Blaze Corcoran and Brandon P. Hollingshead

Book Reviews 215 Intergenerational Learning and Transformative Leadership for Sustainable Futures Peter Blaze Corcoran and Brandon P. Hollingshead, editors (2014). The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 431 pages. $95.00 (hardback); ISBN: 978-90-8686-242-8. ______________________________________________________________ How can environmental education, intergenerational learning and transformative leadership intersect to create a better future for mankind? This big question recurs throughout this timely edited collection as the chapters explore these different facets through diverse cultural settings. The fourth edited volume of the Dutch government-supported series on education and learning in the context of sustainability, this volume attempts to address critical questions such as: what is the role of intergenerational learning and transformative leadership in meeting the challenges of today’s global community? What are the necessary ethical frameworks, methodologies, curricula and tools for advancing and strengthening such education? With little available literature in intergenerational learning in the context of environmental education, this book represents an important contribution in this emerging area of inquiry. The book features a total of 30 chapters divided into three parts. Part one, entitled “Principles,” consists of eight chapters providing the key principles that set the theoretical and conceptual foundation for the book. The various chapters providing case analyses of higher institutional initiatives for sustainability education in this section further provide reflections on the purpose of higher education in an age of urgent need for sustainable futures. Part Two, entitled “Perspectives,” comprises eight chapters exploring a range of intergenerational learning and transformative leadership concerns and propositions, such as methodologies and approaches to facilitate intergenerational learning, and practical tools to foster leadership. More examples of global-to-local initiatives are presented in Part Three, which is entitled “Praxis.” Among its 14 chapters, eight focus on university centers on environment and sustainable development and their projects/programs. These descriptions and evaluations of university centers from different continents are particularly beneficial for educators who wish to learn how other university centers for environment and sustainable development grow their initiatives, build intergenerational environmental studies courses, foster collaboration and develop networking. In the remaining chapters, discussions range from international networks such as the role of UNESCO networks in facilitating regional cooperation for sustainable development, to descriptions and reflections on specific intergenerational projects. For example, a chapter describes the Buddy Experiment project under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Earth Charter International, where senior IUCN members are paired with young activists in intergenerational learning and mentoring. Book Reviews 216 Diversity serves as a dominant theme throughout the volume. The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, affirms in the Forward of the book that this is a publication that offers an opportunity to “grasp the vitality, breadth and variety of ideas and practices in Education for Sustainable Development across the world” (17). The book’s diverse representations of cultures, as showcased in the global and local initiatives, broaden insights into how traditional ecological knowledge and socio-cultural understandings should inherently be part of the discourse on sustainability included in learning and leadership. The authors of the Introduction drive a powerful point that there is no shortage of effective leadership but there is a need to cultivate transformative leadership for sustainability, which they emphasize is an adaptive process always manifesting itself “within a particular context, [which] employs local knowledge and respects local needs and customs” (29). A respect for diversity and recognition of the learning potential in local knowledge is what makes a truly effective transformative leader. For someone in the intergenerational education field, I see the incorporation of intergenerationality in learning and leadership as a significant contribution of new ideas into the field. In the spirit of diversity, the book has juxtaposed and expanded the different understandings of intergenerational learning, from the first step of deciding who is included in intergenerational learning, to the directions that intergenerational concerns are heading. For instance, as rightly pointed out in the Introduction, there is a need to move beyond the tendency to interpret intergenerationality as a focus only on children and youth, ignoring and marginalizing elders as vulnerable and disabled. In the age of global longevity, there is an increasingly urgent need to adopt a new perspective on the older generations as valuable...

Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools by Annette Lareau and Kimberly Goyette

Book Reviews 218 and Transformative Leadership for Sustainable Futures into a new book that invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on—and craft visions for—the future of environmental and sustainability education. This will be another volume in the Wageningen Academic Publishers series on the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, with support from the Dutch National Program for Education for Sustainable Development. In this research project, we wish to explore what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. How might the collective project of imagining alternative futures help us rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically? How might we use emerging modes of critical speculation as a means to map and (re)design the future of environmental and sustainability education today? We seek to explore how environmental educators and education policy makers can engage in imaginative mapping concerning large scale, global processes, as well as create useful, situated knowledge for dissemination within their respective socio-ecological contexts. Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools Annette Lareau and Kimberly Goyette, editors (2014). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 328 pages. $49.95 (paperback); ISBN 978=0=87154-496-4. This edited book brings together studies of residential segregation and school choice, making the important point that processes in both areas combine to generate the inequalities that are increasingly visible among public schools in the United States. Part I deals mainly with residential patterns, beginning with a careful overview of the racial segregation literature by Maria Krysan, Kyle Crowder, and Michael Bader. Paul Jargowsky contributes an analysis of how race and class combine to produce segregated outcomes, each one operating partly independently of the other. Anna Rhodes and Stefanie DeLuca explore residential choices for disadvantaged households. Their qualitative interviews in Mobile, Alabama, provide new evidence of how constrained the choice set is for these parents. Despite their recognition of the importance of good schools and their desire to provide greater opportunities for their children, their actual housing searches are limited by instability and frequent moves. When there are options for attending a non-local school, factors other than school quality—such as how to coordinate children’s schooling with parents’ work schedules, or where there is a relative who can assist with before or after school care—are primary. Annette Lareau’s chapter in Part II provides more information about how schools are taken into account as parents decide on residential locations. Her research team interviewed parents in three suburban school districts, including both white and black households and people with a variety of class positions. She found that Book Reviews 219 choices were largely based on personal knowledge (keeping many working class families close to the neighborhoods where they had lived before) and social networks (which were more wide-ranging and informative for middle-class families). Other chapters give more emphasis as to how schools are chosen. Salvatore Saporito and Caroline Hanley probe the patterns of private school attendance, focusing on the well-known finding that whites are more likely to select a private school if they live in a more racially mixed setting. This relationship was relatively weak in 1970, when many districts operated separate schools for white and black students, but emerged clearly by 1980 and it has remained strong in subsequent decades. Shelley McDonough Kimelberg’s chapter in Part II reports on the other side of the coin: decisions of middle-class parents in Boston to remain in public schools and forego the option of moving to the suburbs. She describes how parents evaluated the risks of attending a city school, the upside potential of doing well and gaining admission to the coveted Boston Latin School, and their sense of the options if things turned out badly. Another chapter by Mary Patillo, Loree Delale-O-Connor, and Felicia Butts uses personal interviews to look into how less advantaged families approached schooling decisions. In Chicago, where charter schools are a viable alternative to public schools, they found that many parents chose the neighborhood public school by default, unaware of their options. The majority of charter school parents that they interviewed, in contrast, had actively used information sources, learned the procedures, and even...

Livestock Housing: Modern Management to Ensure Optimal Health and Welfare of Animals Edited by A Aland and T Banhazi (2013). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 496 pages Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-217-7). Price €84.00, US$125.00.

Livestock Housing: Modern Management to Ensure Optimal Health and Welfare of Animals Edited by A Aland and T Banhazi (2013). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 496 pages Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-217-7). Price €84.00, US$125.00. - Volume 23 Issue 4

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Factors affecting dairy cow milk iodine

It has come to the attention of Wageningen Academic Publishers that this article should not have been submitted for publication in Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods due to simultaneous submission and parallel publication in the European Journal of Food Research & Review (currently European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety). Therefore, the publisher has decided to withdraw the article.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production. (Edited papers from the EurSAFE 2012 Conference held in Tubingen, Germany 30 May to 2 June 2012) Edited by T Potthast and S Meisch (2012). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 528 pages Paperback (ISBN 978-90-8686-197-2). Price €74.00.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production. (Edited papers from the EurSAFE 2012 Conference held in Tubingen, Germany 30 May to 2 June 2012) Edited by T Potthast and S Meisch (2012). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 528 pages Paperback (ISBN 978-90-8686-197-2). Price €74.00. - Volume 22 Issue 4

Udder Health and Communication: Proceedings of the International Conference, 25-27 October 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands Edited by H Hogeveen and TJGM Lam (2011). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, NL-6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 428 pages. Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-185-9). Price €96.00, $US144.00.

Udder Health and Communication: Proceedings of the International Conference, 25-27 October 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands Edited by H Hogeveen and TJGM Lam (2011). Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, PO Box 220, NL-6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. 428 pages. Hardback (ISBN 978-90-8686-185-9). Price €96.00, $US144.00. - Volume 22 Issue 4

Review of “Ecology of parasite-vector interactions” by Willem Takken and Constantianus J.M. Koenraadt

Book detailsTakken D, Koenraadt CJM: Ecology of parasite-vector in-teractions. Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2013. 272pages. ISBN 978–9086861880.ReviewThe increasing importance of vector-borne diseases ismirrored by the large number of papers published, bythe emergence of dedicated new high-quality journalsand also by a significant number of books publishedrecently on this topic. This enormous quantity of datamakes it difficult for scientists to filter the relevanthigh-quality from the average science. Excellent reviewcollections, like this text, render the task more manage-able. The third volume of the edited series “Ecology andcontrol of vector-borne diseases” started in 2007, brings12 contributed chapters grouped in three main sections:(1) Fundamental aspects of vector-parasite interactions;(2) Species-specific interactions and (3) Strategic issuesconcerning vector-parasite interactions. Despite the titleof the book, which seems broad and general, the vastmajority of contributions refer to mosquitoes and mos-quito-borne diseases while other vectors are either poorlyrepresented (i.e. ticks, sandflies) or completely absent(fleas, tsetse flies, triatomines etc.).In the first section, the chapter “Impact of transgenicimmune deployment on mosquito fitness” (by Pike et al.)presents brief reviews on the mosquito innate immunesystem and principles of mosquito transgenesis, followedby a detailed and well- referenced discussion on the im-pact of transgenic expression on the survival and fitnessof mosquitoes under natural conditions. The chapter“Plant-sugar feeding and vectorial capacity” (by Stoneand Foster) is an extensive and excellent review ofthe alternative feeding sources on plants of otherwisehematophagous insects followed by its impact on thevectorial capacity of mosquitoes and sandflies. “Vectorcompetence for arboviruses in relation to the larval envi-ronment of mosquitoes” (by Alto and Lounibos) summa-rizestheresultsofstudiesontheeffectofnutrition,competition, temperature and insecticides during thelarval development on the vectorial transmission ofarboviruses in adult mosquitoes. An overview on therisk prediction for malaria transmission depending onthermal variations is discussed in “Relevant tempera-tures in mosquito and malaria biology” (by Paaijmansand Thomas). A fine summary chapter, “Evolutionaryaspects of Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions” (byLambrechts and Koella) highlights the importance ofthe (co)evolutionary viewpoint for the better unders-tanding of the history, distribution and dynamics ofmalaria transmission.Included in the second section is an interesting andwell-written article “Tick-Borrelia interactions: burdenor benefit” (by Gassner and Hartemink). Based on ex-perimental trials and field observations on theBorrelia-induced behavioural changes in ticks, the authors proposea theoretical model for assessing the impact of the fitnesseffect of the infection on larval survival. A brief, but verywell- documented section is “Wolbachia in Aedes mosqui-toes: towards biological control of vector-borne diseases”(by Moreira). The author reviews the potential value ofusing the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia as a pos-sible practical solution for the biological control of humanvector-borne diseases. The chapter “Behaviour of sandfliesinfected with Leishmania” (by Ready and Rogers), reviewsthe mechanisms of manipulation by Leishmania ofsandflies feeding on mammalian hosts in order to en-hance parasites transmission, as well as the experimen-tal models to study such pathogen-vector interactions.In the third section, the chapter “Modelling the controlof mosquito-borne diseases” (by North and Hancock) is avery well-focused overview on the strategies for