Animal breeding articles within Nature

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• News | 24 August 2012

  NIH clears chimp facility of breeding ban breach

  Census and cost data invoked to put US research centre in the clear.

  • Meredith Wadman

• Research Highlights | 15 August 2012

  Heady dog genetics

• News & Views | 18 August 2010

  How plants avoid incest

  Different versions of the same gene can be either dominant or recessive. A small non-coding RNA mediates such differences in dominance as part of a system that prevents inbreeding in plants.

  • Daphne Goring
  •  & Emily Indriolo

• News & Views | 18 August 2010

  Oh sibling, who art thou?

  Help from earlier offspring in rearing a subsequent brood should evolve more easily when the mother is strictly monogamous. A comparative study of birds provides evidence in support of this view.

  • Andrew Cockburn

• Research Highlights | 20 January 2010

  Evolutionary biology: Sperm signals

• News | 18 January 2010

  Mystery of the brown giant panda deepens

  Rare sighting of brown-and-white panda sparks conservation debate.

  • Henry Nicholls