Test Reveals Genetic Defect That Causes Infertility In Pigs
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 09:29
in Biology & Nature
In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The defective gene has now been mapped. Sequence analysis of the candidate gene KPL2 revealed the presence of an inserted retrotransposon, a DNA sequence which moves around independently in the host genome.
