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...
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Back-breeding aurochsen
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:
A little rewilding
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...
Conservation by genomics
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...
Dutch aurochsen 600 AD
Not a big story, but nice reminder that some extinct megafauna were still with us in historic times: