{"id":199758,"date":"2024-11-19T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/advances-in-y-chromosome-analysis-aid-in-horse-breeding-and-conservation"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:23:16","slug":"advances-in-y-chromosome-analysis-aid-in-horse-breeding-and-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/advances-in-y-chromosome-analysis-aid-in-horse-breeding-and-conservation","title":{"rendered":"Advances in Y chromosome analysis aid in horse breeding and conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advances-in-y-chromosome-analysis-aid-in-horse-breeding-and-conservation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Texas A&amp;M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of its complex structure, the Y chromosome is much harder to sequence, making our knowledge of it far from complete,\u201d said Dr. Gus Cothran, a professor emeritus in the VMBS\u2019 Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS). \u201cIn fact, scientists used to believe that the Y chromosome lacked genetic variety, which we believed meant that it didn\u2019t contribute much to species diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Cothran\u2019s new research collaboration, led by the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, has uncovered that the Y chromosome does have meaningful variation and is important for species diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Texas A&amp;M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity. \u201cBecause of its complex structure, the Y chromosome is much harder to sequence, making our knowledge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}