In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

"Regressive evolution," or the reduction of traits over time, is the result of either natural selection or genetic drift, according to a study on cavefish by researchers at New York University's ...

We have used over 10,000 cow imputed 50K SNP genotypes to assess the effects of inbreeding and genome selection in dairy cattle. Sarviaho, K., Uimari, P., & Martikainen, K. 2024. Signatures of ...

Researchers propose mitigating methane production by dairy cattle through breeding. Scientists are targeting reduction of enteric methane in the breeding objectives for dairy cattle to select for ...