Genetic findings could save threatened water buffalo
Monday, October 5, 2015 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
International collaboration between researchers at Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in Indonesia has led to the identification of two separate gene mutations which explain the white colouration of the tedong bonga water buffalo. The results could be used to conserve the threatened buffalo, an important livestock animal.