Recombination has a major role in evolution. Sex-differences in recombination (yes!!) – heterochiasmy – are common but not well understood. Our new paper in @HeredityJournal examines heterochiasmy in the hihi/stitchbird using a high-density linkage map.🧬 https://t.co/gcw9v4GlLq
There has been comment by methane science accord members about breeding for reduced methane emissions in sheep here is the science-informed response https://t.co/mVdGYLbFYC
We are looking for an Assistant Research Fellow to join the group and work on #phages as part of our @MBIEsci funded work. You must have right to live and work in NZ to be eligible. Details below https://t.co/jLOmcXaOqH please share
Further accolades for our Low Methane Sheep Breeding team, which has tonight been named as the recipient of the @royalsocietynz's prestigious Pickering Medal, as part of the 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa .... /3
A big congrats to our own Ken Dodds, named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics at its conference in Perth last night - for his outstanding contributions to the science of genetics and animal improvement #AAABG 🔬👏
We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist, or a Scientist with aligned skills, to join our @AgResearchNEWS Animal Genomics Team based near Dunedin, New Zealand. We welcome international applications from those that can obtain the required NZ visas. https://t.co/trQe3oteE6
Very cool to have portable accumulation chambers made by our team in NZ now being used in the UK - helping farmers to reduce their on-farm methane just like we are doing in NZ 🐑🔬. Read more👇
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1/2 #DYK? The reasons we chose to ban the six categories of single-use plastic items were because they:
1. are commonly found in the environment,
2.are harmful to wildlife and their habitat,
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The Jones Medal for a lifetime achievement award in pure or applied mathematics or statistics has been awarded for the first time this year in the @royalsocietynz Research Honours Aotearoa, and the inaugural winner is our own Dr Ken Dodds. Congrats, Ken! 👏🏅.... /3
Our research in the climate change/greenhouse gas space has netted us the Supreme Award in the @science_nz Awards for a second consecutive year - with our Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory Development Team being honoured at tonight's awards dinner 👏🏆.... /3
Since 1969 Strassen’s algorithm has famously stood as the fastest way to multiply 2 matrices - but with #AlphaTensor we’ve found a new algorithm that’s faster, with potential to improve efficiency by 10-20% across trillions of calculations per day! https://t.co/nLvFbEDBuO