A Michigan State University researcher recently received a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...

The Trump administration is temporarily banning imports of cattle, horses and bison through ports along the southern border because of the rapid northern spread of New World Screwworm (NWS ...

Dr McDonagh said using the genetic diversity and genetic inbreeding tools (within Estimated Breeding Values) the industry has the opportunity to make active decisions to manage their cattle and br ...

However, in today’s dairy population, attempts to limit a herd’s inbreeding coefficient to 6.25% have become unrealistic if dairy producers wish to make genetic progress. Speaking at this week’s ...

It is at 6% and above when geneticists raise concerns that inbreeding has a detrimental effect on numerous animal health and welfare traits such as fertility; reproduction, disease, longevity and ...

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Background: In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), cattle are crucial for socioeconomic stability yet face numerous environmental stressors such as diseases, parasites, and extreme heat within pastoral and ...

Like taking a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy. It’s not dissimilar to human or livestock inbreeding, then. The “gene pool” – in this case, the content used to train generative AI ...

[Sammy Omingo, Standard] Inbreeding in livestock happens when closely related animals mate. Animals from a certain breed are closely related and will pass their undesirable traits to the offspring ...

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The author is an associate professor of dairy cattle genetics at Penn State University. We know that inbreeding rates accelerated after the introduction of genomic selection in 2009. Part of this ...