Important mutation discovered in dairy cattle

Friday, January 3, 2014 - 23:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered a mutation with a built-in dilemma for dairy cattle breeders. The deleted gene sequence has a positive effect on milk yield but causes embryonic death in dairy cattle.

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