Dairy farmers are rapidly adopting molecular profiling to accelerate the process of siring cows. But this seismic shift in breeding practices is raising new questions and translating more slowly to the beef industry. Stephen Strauss reports.
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Strauss, S. Biotech breeding goes bovine. Nat Biotechnol 28, 540–543 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0610-540
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