Maintain the future race from studying grassland wolves

New hope for animal breeding from the study of the grass-like genome.

A new study published in The New York Times magazine points out the unique features of the coyote genome, opening new hopes for breeding and maintaining the future race.

Accordingly, the grass wolf is a dog that has a close family of wolves and domestic dogs. In it, this coyote's gene occupies 1/4 of the wolf's DNA and two-thirds of the DNA is from the grass wolf, the rest is domesticated from the wolves.

Pasture wolf is a predatory species that lives in the herd, has a slender, agile body and resourceful in hunting. They are also skilled predators on the prairies of the Great Lakes, North America.

Grass wolves are small in size, only as small as dogs in Southeast Asia, weighing about 9-22kg but extremely agile.

While gray wolves and wolves are often close relatives, evolving 1-2 million years apart, breeds of hybrid wolves have emerged in the past few decades.

Researcher Moises Velazquez-Manoff said: "Grass-bred wolves possess strong jaws, quick-witted, good hunters like wolves. The genetic combination of two wolves and domestic dogs helps dogs. This hybrid coyote is really suited to the North American habitat. "

The genes of wolves make it capable of defeating large, fast, compact prey while domestic dog genes help them adapt socially more flexibly. Experts conducted an experiment when mating coyotes and male gray wolves mate.

The result is an inaccurate wolves like wild hybrid wolves but have similar genomes. This has provided researchers with the idea of ​​intercrossing species, close to the genome.

Through research, experts concluded that breeding and breeding has provided scientists with more ideas in dealing with the disappearance of many animals.

As climate change becomes more and more serious, the food resources are gradually exhausted, the living environment is also destroyed by human unintentional, these animals can survive to propagate and maintain. Breeding is a meaningful thing.