Yaks in Mongolia have more than 1 percent cattle DNA despite male hybrid sterility
Last year an interesting paper by Ivica Medugorac and coworkers presented data on introgression in domesticated yaks in Mongolia: “Whole-genome analysis of i...
Last year an interesting paper by Ivica Medugorac and coworkers presented data on introgression in domesticated yaks in Mongolia: “Whole-genome analysis of i...
I was just talking in class today about how people want to back-breed aurochsen out of extinction. Here’s a new story about the idea, from the Telegraph:
Here’s a Reuters story about attempts to bring back aurochsen and introduce them to Britain. Aurochsen are now extinct in the wild, the last having died in 1...
This week’s Nature has a news article by Emma Marris about bison conservation and genomics. I’ve been very interested in cattle and bison as an example of in...
Not a big story, but nice reminder that some extinct megafauna were still with us in historic times: