By Carol Beuchat PhDIn the last two decades, there has been increased awareness of the value of domestic animal breeds as genetic resources that need to be managed and preserved to ensure their longterm survival and usefulness. The concern for this began when livestock breeding started being done on an industrial scale using modern technologies like embryo transfer and genomic selection. These allowed us to produce millions of nearly-identical animals with the specific production traits (eg., mi [...]
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