Breeding

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‘Traffic calming’ boosts breeding on coral reefs

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Coral reef fish breed more successfully if motorboat noise is reduced, new research shows. Scientists introduced "traffic calming" on three...

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Infectious bacteria force host plants to feed them, study finds: Insights into pathogen that threatens corn could inform future breeding

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A species of bacteria that infect corn crops compel their hosts to produce a feast of nutrients that keeps the...

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Selective breeding sustainably protects honey bees from Varroa mite

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A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic Varroa mite, new...

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Easy test can see if breeding bulls have the right stuff

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Forget sending bull semen out for complicated laboratory tests to learn whether the agricultural animal is highly virile. Soon, a...

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Potato genome decoded: The complete sequencing of the genetic material facilitates the breeding of new varieties

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More than 20 years after the first releasse of the human genome, scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max...

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Vast fish breeding colony is more than twice the size of Paris

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best...

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World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

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Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world's...

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Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random: Findings could lead to advances in plant breeding, human genetics

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A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according to new research from University...

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Arctic birds connect the world: Biologging tech tracking of nearctic seabirds surprise scientists with diverse migratory paths from shared breeding site

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As the Arctic and the oceans warm due to climate change, understanding how a rapidly changing environment may affect birds...

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Breeding plants with genes from one parent: Advance could shorten times for crop breeding

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Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research led by plant biologists...