Brazilian scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) collaborating with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a dairy ...
The concept of cattle breeds, rather than local types, is said to have originated in Britain under the influence of Robert Bakewell in the 18th century (Porter, 1991). It was during that period that ...
Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to breed superior cattle.
There are two local cattle breeds, the Rhodope Shorthorn and Bulgarian Grey Cattle, that are the first in the country to have been genotyped for genetic characterization. In May and June 2006 Dr.
After nearly ten years of planning, funding battles, team building, and successive refinements to laboratory techniques, a new approach to animal genetic improvement has finally yielded its first ...
High milk yield in dairy cows is negatively correlated to fertility. Scientists have now found a mutation in a gene sequence that affects this relationship. Scientists have found a genomic deletion ...