In 2022, a team of geneticists at Texas A&M University completed a study that changed how scientists understand the genetic history of the American bison. The researchers sequenced the genomes of
In 2022, a team of geneticists at Texas A&M University completed a study that changed how scientists understand the genetic history of the American bison. The researchers sequenced the genomes of bison from major historical lineages and compared them against the genomes of domestic cattle, searching for traces of cattle DNA. They expected to confirm that certain herds with documented histories of…