Whole-genome sequencing of bulls in key beef and dairy breeds
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
An international collaboration known as the '1000 Bull Genomes Project' aims to accelerate breeding for desired traits in beef and dairy cattle while also improving animal health and welfare. Results of the project's first phase—based on sequencing the whole genomes of 234 individual bulls whose direct descendants number in the tens of millions—are reported in the journal Nature Genetics.