English Bulldog’s Gene Pool May Be Too Small to Heal the Breed
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 23:31
in Biology & Nature
The popular but characteristically unhealthy English bulldog may have been bred into a corner, now lacking the diversity in its gene pool to make much-needed health improvements, reports a team of University of California, Davis, researchers. In the first broad-based assessment of the breed’s genetic diversity using DNA rather than pedigrees, the researchers confirmed earlier […]