HerefordSire
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Imagine implementing this with the best bull on the market of your chosen breed? It sure does make genetic ownership disclaimer comments, such as the ones Star Lake Cattle Company has posted, allot more important. What do you think of this technology?
Bee semen imports make gentler honeybees
Susan Cobey of UC Davis is mixing up bee genes. Most recently, she imported sperm from a European honey bee to mix its genes with her line of New World Carniolans, a subspecies of the Western honey bee. She says the result is a "very gentle, very hygienic and very productive" bee. That's all very interesting if you own bees; more interestingly to those concerned with the decline of honey bee populations, Cobey also hopes the old world genes could give her new world bee more resistance to pests and disease.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... .html#more
Bee semen imports make gentler honeybees
Susan Cobey of UC Davis is mixing up bee genes. Most recently, she imported sperm from a European honey bee to mix its genes with her line of New World Carniolans, a subspecies of the Western honey bee. She says the result is a "very gentle, very hygienic and very productive" bee. That's all very interesting if you own bees; more interestingly to those concerned with the decline of honey bee populations, Cobey also hopes the old world genes could give her new world bee more resistance to pests and disease.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... .html#more