1: Breeding for disease resistance in livestock and fish 2: Cryptosporidium and Giardia zoonoses: minimizing health risks from food animal production 3: Livestock infectious disease and climate change: a review of selected literature 4: Intensification of animal production from grassland and ecosystem services: a trade-off 5: A review of the structure and regulation of the laying hen's reproductive system and the interaction between the stress and reproductive axes 6: Communicable diseases and the human-animal relationship - Mini Review 7: Analysing the genetic basis of milk production traits 8: Environmental enrichment and practical applications for welfare in production agriculture 9: Selection of growth functions for describing length-at-age relationships in fish species displaying different life history traits: unexpected alternatives to the von Bertalanffy equation and advantages of a pluralistic statistical approach 10: The function, social implications and management of barking in dogs 11: High-affinity and -specificity, bacteriophage-based technologies: beyond phage therapy - Mini Review 12: Issues and possible intervention strategies relating to early weaning of piglets 13: Major bacterial diseases in aquaculture and their vaccine development 14: Intensive versus extensive management systems in commercial egg production 15: Lamb mulesing: impact on welfare and alternatives 16: Laminitis in horses 17: A review of innate immune functions in crocodilians 18: Novel techniques for preserving genetic diversity in poultry germplasm 19: Recombinant vaccines and infectious bursal disease virus 20: Fish frauds: the DNA challenge.