The origins of cattle / Matthew Teasdale and Daniel G. Bradley -- Mendelian inheritance in cattle / Frank Nicholas -- Genetics of coat color in cattle / Sheila M. Schmutz -- From quantitative genetics to quantitative genomics: a personal odyssey / Morris Soller -- Cartography of the bovine genome / James E. Womack -- Linkage mapping / Stephanie McKay and Robert Schnabel -- The bovine X and Y chromosomes / Abel Ponce DeLeon and Wansheng Liu -- Comparative genomics and evolution / Denis Larkin -- Sequencing the bovine genome / Kim Worley, Richard Gibbs -- Bovine genome architecture / Dave Adelson -- Bovine epigenetics and epigenomics / Xiuchun Tian -- Mapping quantitative trait loci / Joel Weller -- Genome wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium in cattle / M.E. Goddard and B.J. Hayes -- Genomic selection in beef cattle / Jerry Taylor ... et al. -- Impact of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing on the identification of genes and variants underlying phenotypic variation in domestic cattle / Michel Georges.