Burgers and Flies

Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.

Read the article in The Scientist:
Burgers & Flies

And join Professor Noor, President of the AGA, in Durham, NC for the 2012 AGA Symposium:

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Cattle Species Added to List of Mammalian Genomes

The zebu, Bos indicus, one of two species of cattle, has joined an exclusive club that counts among its few dozen members the domestic dog, giant panda, and human beings.

In an article freely available online in Journal of Heredity, a team of Brazilian and Canadian scientists describe the use of cutting-edge technologies to assemble the complete genome of a Nellore bull, one of the common breeds of the species. See the News page for more details.

The American Breeders Association held its first meeting in 1903 to discuss the 'new' science of Genetics for practical breeding of plants and animals. In 1914, the ABA became the American Genetic Association.

Today, the AGA continues to disseminate achievements in genetics through the Journal of Heredity. The Journal, in print for over 100 years, publishes organismal research in areas of general interest to the genetics community.

The AGA funds an annual President’s Symposium, small conferences and workshops through its Special Events Awards, and the Stephen J O’Brien award to recognize the best student-authored article each year.

ANNOUNCING: Journal of Heredity Articles Available Free Online

Issue 102 Supplement: Symposium Issue: Fifth International Conference on Advances in Canine and Feline Genomics and Inherited Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, 22-25 September 2010

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ALL 2010 VOL 102 ARTICLES BY SUBJECT AREA
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/collection

Issue 101 Supplement: Evolution of Sex & Recombination: In Theory & In Practice
Proceedings of the 2009 University of Iowa Symposium.
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/index.dtl

The AGA Genome Evolution Collection http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jhered/genome.html
Articles from the 2007 AGA President’s Symposium, organized by Michael Lynch; and Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species by the Genome 10K Community of Scientists. Additional significant and topical papers will be added to the collection in future.

Presentations and Posters from the 2010 AGA Symposium, held in Hilo, Hawaii, are now freely available for downloading
Click here: Conservation Genomics