(AGENPARL) - Roma, 15 Giugno 2023 - (AGENPARL) – STATE COLLEGE gio 15 giugno 2023
In the fall of 2020, when Chad Dechow, Penn State associate professor of dairy cattle genetics, got a call from veterinarians in New York describing a strange condition affecting Holstein calves on two farms under their care, he was unfamiliar with the condition that came to be known as calf recumbency. Since then, he and his collaborators identified the underlying genetic mutation and devised a simple genetic test to identify Holsteins that harbor the mutation.
Fonte/Source: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/penn-state-dairy-cattle-geneticist-finds-mutant-gene-threatening-holstein-calves