One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are inherited with equal frequency. "However, we have long known that there are genes ...

The Federal Government has intensified efforts to transform Nigeria’s livestock sector through a coordinated national approach to animal genetics, as the Honourable Minister of Livestock Development, ...

Blue Mounds State Park, near Luverne, is home to one of the few cattle-genetic-free bison herds in the nation. The team, which includes naturalist Tiffany Muellner, achieves this ...

Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...

At Deluisio Angus near Leechburg, PA, a reasoning model plans matings while deterministic engines compute every EPD, dollar value and inbreeding coefficient. Artificial intelligence picks the sire, ...

Botswana's foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) crisis is threatening more than its commercial beef industry. Stud breeders say ...

Animal reproduction encompasses the full sequence from gamete formation through fertilisation, embryonic development and parturition. In farm and companion species alike, natural breeding is ...

The results of inbreeding can be very distressing to witness. In this Instagram post, we see a captive lion with skull deformities, and in this post, we see another lion with drastically shortened ...

This week's column was prompted by a reader comment following last week's article, and explores what EBVs and other selection ...

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 ...