Researchers unlock genetic twist in differences in horn size with sheep

Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 07:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.K. and Australia, working with sheep data obtained from a small island off the coast of Scotland has learned why it is that some sheep have large horns, while others do not. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they studied data obtained over a 20 year period to discover the seeming contradiction with the sheep.

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