A genome-wide association study of 536 Tianzhu White Yaks has identified 366 significant SNPs and 32 candidate genes linked ...

New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the ...

Engineered proteins that can cross the blood–brain barrier represent a reliable and non-invasive way to map gene expression in the brains of large animals. Gene therapy has been successfully used to ...

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered new insights into how unspecialized cells, also ...

In one of the most ambitious epigenomic studies yet attempted in livestock, researchers have assembled a vast multi-omics ...

Gene mapping is the discipline devoted to determining the linear order and chromosomal coordinates of genes and other genomic elements. Traditional genetic mapping employs linkage analysis, in which ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. With a growing human population and rising living standards, demand for animal-derived ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

An understanding of the origin and dynamics of heritable genetic variation within classical animal breeding programs is needed to provide the context for understanding the contributions and concerns ...