- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: June 5, 2015
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Mapping of the cow genome has provided scientists with information on the 3 billion base pairs on cattle DNA.
Advances in cattle breeding over the past 60-plus years has reduced the carbon footprint of the dairy industry. DNA sequencing suggests still more productive cows and less pollution in the future, reported Lesley McClurg on Capital Public Radio.
McClurg spoke to Alison Van Eenennaam, a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension specialist. Van Eenannaam is an animal geneticist based at UC Davis.
"We used to have somewhere roundabouts 25 million dairy cows in the United States, and we're down to nine million...
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