Genetic Factors that Affect Fertility
Heather Smith Thomas
Hereford World
Jared Decker, assistant professor of beef genetic extension and computational genomics, is part of this research team at MU. “So far we have sequenced more than 150 animals,” Decker says. “Our purpose in sequencing these is to find genes in which there is a DNA variant that breaks the gene. In other words, the gene no longer codes for a functioning protein.
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