Pig Genome Reveals Genes That Made Domestic Pigs Longer
NETHERLANDS - Since having been tamed and domesticated some 10,000 years ago, pigs have been getting longer. Researchers from the universities of Wageningen, Uppsala, Copenhagen and Edinburgh are publishing details of the genetic origins of this remarkable change in an article in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science), which was published simultaneously with their Nature article about the sequencing of the pig genome on 15 November.
27 November 2012
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