Texel sheep are renowned for their exceptional meatiness. To identify the genes underlying this economically important feature, we performed a whole-genome scan in a Romanov × Texel F2 population.

Pigs, sheep and cows given double myostatin inhibition gene editing. April 7, 2017 July 6, 2015 by Brian Wang. Belgian Blue cattle are hulking animals that provide unusually large amounts of prized, ...

Gene-editing of livestock animals is a growing area of research in India with significant applications targeted at enhanced meat yield and milk production, disease resistance and resilience to impacts ...

World's first myostatin gene edited Huyang sheep born in China. By Global Times Published: Jan 07, 2021 11:55 AM. A breeder feeds Huyang sheep in Xinyang, Central China's Henan Province, on January 5.

Scattered throughout the mammalian menagerie are a few supermuscular freaks: double-muscled cows more ripped than any bodybuilder; racing dogs too burly to run; sheep praised for their massively ...

Adding myostatin. By the early 2000s, carcass weights seemed to be plateauing at 17.5-18kg. So, in 2005, two Texel rams carrying the GDF8 gene were introduced into the Romney flock.

The edited sheep contains no foreign DNA, distinguishing it from transgenic organisms and paving the way for regulatory approval under India's evolving biotech policy framework ...

Noel states that: “The presence of the Myostatin gene, sometimes known as ‘Double muscling’ gene, has always had a place in ...