Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics. In selective breeding, a breeder chooses two parents with ...

The days of guess work in breeding dairy cattle are gone. Today's DNA sequencing means more productive cows and less pollution. Breeding cattle through artificial insemination began in the 1940’s.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has ...

Cayne Layton receives funding from the University of Tasmania, The Nature Conservancy, and the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program. Melinda Coleman receives funding from The ...

Selective breeding is the method of breeding plants or animals with particular genetic characteristics to create offspring with a set of desired traits. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...

Dogs are a weird bunch. They range in size from bearish behemoths like Newfoundlands to pipsqueaks like Milly, a Chihuahua who measures less than 4 inches tall and holds the Guinness record for ...

Selective breeding can double the heat tolerance of Ningaloo Reef coral, according to new research. Minderoo Foundation scientists say coral bred from a warm-water parent and a cool-water parent are ...

Vets of the study say that if breeders and the public stop selecting the bulldog’s current characteristic features, the future English bulldog will have a longer face, trimmer head, and no skin folds.

The selective breeding of some domestic dogs has made their brains rotate forwards, and relocated one key component. Michael Valenzuela at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and ...

Muscular "super cattle" have been produced through genetic mutation and decades of selective breeding. What's False Muscular "super cattle" are not technically the result of "genetic engineering" (i.e ...

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