Being sheepish about climate adaptation

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

For thousands of years, man has domesticated animals, selecting the best traits possible for survival. Now, livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing animal to examine adaptation to climate change, with a genetic legacy of centuries of selected breeding and a wealth of livestock genome-wide data available.

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