{"id":2327,"date":"2014-07-14T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:37:54","slug":"the-1000-bulls-project-new-bovine-genomes-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-1000-bulls-project-new-bovine-genomes-published\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1000 Bulls Project: New bovine genomes published"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seven<\/a>

Seven Forty Seven, a world renowned Grand Champion bull at the Iowa state fair in 1980, is a key founder of the Canadian Limousin herd and one of the bulls sequenced and genotyped by the Canadian Cattle Genome Project. (Photo credit: Fred Stevens \/ Canadian Cattle Genome Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

The first phase of the \u201c1000 Bulls Project\u201d reports complete DNA sequences for 234 animals that are considered key ancestors of the worldwide Holstein-Fresian, Jersey and Fleckvieh breeds.<\/p>\n

By cross-referencing the tiny differences in these genomes with information on the animals performance – milk production (in dairy animals), weight gain (in beef cattle), genetic defects, etc. – the results will help farmers around the world select for the most beneficial traits in their herd and provide consumers with better meat and milk products.<\/p>\n

The ongoing project includes important contributions from the Canadian Cattle Genome Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0Nature Genetics<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0July 13, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Hayes, Bundoora,\u00a0Australia<\/h4>\n

Paul Stothard, University of Alberta,\u00a0Alberta<\/h4>\n

Mary De Pauw, Canadian Cattle Genome Project<\/h4>\n

**For more on how bovine genomics<\/span> are used to improve the traits of cattle herds, check our our <\/span>backgrounder on the subject<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/a> More backgrounders on the use of genomics<\/span> in agriculture are <\/span>available here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first phase of the \u201c1000 Bulls Project\u201d reports complete DNA sequences for 234 animals that are considered key ancestors of the worldwide Holstein-Fresian, Jersey and Fleckvieh breeds. By cross-referencing the tiny differences in these genomes with information on the animals performance – milk production (in dairy animals), weight gain (in beef cattle), genetic defects, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,113,1274,917,909],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-biology","tag-dna","tag-evolution","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bLRRBO9WIxM6vHL6WFcmNiqfIcY9rwDfdmwlNbDquLNyywTXzAF6lr3gZf2JT-HQxQDxUHJU35bhLsKwKciloEYV7e354BqiaLEktEtg65gxSK8__-ON0FgKhqbyu0U0rg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}