MetaMorphix.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 53-53
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Reports on the use of genetic information by MetaMorphix to identify the best mates for cattle breeding. Genetic engineering of animals still elicits shrill reactions from many consumers. But MetaMorphix has sought to bypass this controversy by using genetics to identify the ordinary cattle that produce the best meat. Having acquired the livestock genotyping business from Celera, a company that sequenced the human genome, MetaMorphix created a test that examines DNA to identify differences between animals. Since 2002 Cargill, the partner of MetaMorphix, has tested 4,000 cattle to determine which genetic markers are associated with traits such as the marbling and tenderness of meat and the animals' growth rate.