Take A Gander At How Many Million Are Different From Bos Indicus To Bo

[asal]

The unique DNA of a popular Australian Brahman bull will soon be added to the international cow genome databank.

Beef CRC CEO Dr Heather Burrow said the Beef CRC, in partnership with CSIRO Livestock Industries and the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, had now completed sequencing of the Brahman genome, along with the genomes of an Africander and Tuli bull.

It is the first time Australian cattle adapted for tropical conditions have been sequenced, and the information will be included in new generation DNA markers that producers can use to identify important production traits in animals.

“It’s critical Australian producers can use DNA markers that incorporate the genetic variation that occurs in tropically adapted cattle – over half of Australia’s beef production is based in the tropics,” Dr Burrow said.

“To date, most of the data used to make DNA markers have been based on breeds which are suited to a temperate climate.”

But the Beef CRC project identified over four million DNA variants unique to the Australian Brahman genome, demonstrating the variation that can occur across breeds.

CSIRO Livestock Industries’ senior principal research scientist Dr Bill Barendse, a pioneer in the identification of new gene markers for economically important traits of cattle, said the project would help geneticists determine what “makes a Brahman a Brahman”.

“The Brahman bull we sequenced was chosen because he has been widely used in Australia and it will ensure that Northern Australian cattle variation is captured in future selection tools,” Dr Barendse said.

Brahman and Brahman-cross cattle comprise over half of Australian beef cattle population.

Brahmans were introduced to Australia in the early 1930s and proved well suited to the harsh climate and pests of the northern Australian rangelands. Over the past 40 years, Brahmans are estimated to have contributed over $10 billion to the Australian beef industry.

But Brahman and other tropically adapted cattle are not as significant for the beef production systems of other developed countries.

Dr Burrow said the sequencing of the Australian Brahman bull’s genome, along with sequencing of the Tuli and Africander breeds, was particularly important for Australian production.

The inclusion of information about the DNA of these animals will ensure producers can be confident of using the new-style DNA marker ‘super chips’ that are being developed, to work in Australian systems

Ok not canine.. BUT read it first then do a bit of thinking.

if theres QUOTE "But the Beef CRC project identified over four million DNA variants unique to the Australian Brahman genome, demonstrating the variation that can occur across breeds."

makes you perhaps might just might do a slight rethink that a few dozen dna tests for various genetic problems havent even scratched the first millionth ???

of whats out there in our dogs?

yet breeders especially registered breeeds are unethical if they dont produce the perfect healthy, no genetic faults pup?

get real before there are no purebred dogs

[asal]

I gather that press release seems a bit too off dog topic to make sense to any of you?

the dna of that brahman bull which is bos indicus, has 40 million differences to the europen cattle bos taurus.

how has that any reference to dogs. be interesting when they do dna sequence diferent breeds , particularly those from china for instance as apposed to those from europe. every one of those dna sequences can carry a faulty gene.

yet here we are with only literally a handfull of tests for dna faults and people are expecting pedigree breeders to be able to produce faultless dogs and those who fail are being branded unethical.

nature has no perception of ethical only people use the word.

nature abors sameness nature also changes genes, hence the appearance of sports . those that give the inheriter an advantage over the rest of its species thrive, those it handicaps die out.

when these animals are the property of a breeder they surely didnt create these genes , they are tying to select for stock that are healthy but many cannot be seen in the recessive state.

Its sad the growing culture that if a breeder finds they have fault turn up, the onlookers tend to lable the breeder as unethical?

am i still confusing you?

if so apoligise for wasting your time.

[reddog21]

I'm with you. Thanks for posting.

[sas]

makes you perhaps might just might do a slight rethink that a few dozen dna tests for various genetic problems havent even scratched the first millionth ???

of whats out there in our dogs?

yet breeders especially registered breeeds are unethical if they dont produce the perfect healthy, no genetic faults pup?

get real before there are no purebred dogs

Says who? Who out there says that a breeder is unethical is something just happens to pop up that they have never seen before and haven't bred on with?

I gather that press release seems a bit too off dog topic to make sense to any of you?

Or that it's just a very wordy article and people don't like wordy articles

Edited April 23, 2010 by sas