Scientists identify livestock genes to unlock protection against one of Africa's oldest animal plagues
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
An international research team using a new combination of approaches has found two genes that may prove of vital importance to the lives and livelihoods of millions of farmers in a tsetse fly-plagued swathe of Africa the size of the United States. The teams results were published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).