In Africa, livestock production is not only critical for human nutrition and health but also enables economic empowerment of women, resilience of vulnerable rural communities and protection of the ...

An understanding of the origin and dynamics of heritable genetic variation within classical animal breeding programs is needed to provide the context for understanding the contributions and concerns ...

This research provides a comprehensive analysis of deleterious mutations in pear (Pyrus spp.) during domestication, shedding light on their impact on agronomic traits. By resequencing 232 pear ...

The initiative includes plans for a national livestock diversity database and future gene bank development to support sustainable breeding systems In a significant step toward modernising livestock ...

That’s the estimated number of people around the world who are protein deficient, a situation that can worsen physical and mental health conditions. And as the world’s population grows and the demand ...

This unfortunate mishap is an example of the reproducibility challenges we face in research. The results of their study highlight the confounding genetic variables that may be present in animal models ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. With a growing human population and rising living standards, demand for animal-derived ...