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Yak © Sonja Mathis

Press release

31 Jan 2017

Bovine legacy in Mongolian yak genomes

Could the hardiness of the stubborn yak be combined with the productivity and docility of cattle to produce valuable food, primary products and services in a harsh and hostile environment? Researchers from INRA and ALLICE (France), LMU Munich (Germany) and their partners have compared the architecture of cattle and yak genomes and discovered a millennia old introgression of bovine genes in Mongolian yak, which most probably helped to domesticate and breed these animals.

Charançon rouge du palmier, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, équipé d’une puce électronique de type RFID (en anglais radio frequency identification) décelable à courte distance (10 cm).. © INRA, Rachid Hamidi

News

24 Jan 2017

Tracking the red palm weevil

Microchips to monitor the movements of a pest insect

The first ever cloned calves, in INRA’s Developmental Biology and Reproduction research unit in Jouy en Josas. © INRA, PAILLARD Gérard

Press release

09 Dec 2016

Low birth rate after cloning: the consequences of highly disruptive interactions between uterus and embryo

When comparing cloned animal embryos and embryos that come about as a result of artificial insemination, there is a difference in gene expression at the moment implantation occurs in the uterus for more than 5 000 genes. Researchers at INRA and the University of California are shining the spotlight on this critical step for the survival of cloned embryos in cattle. Published in the 8 December 2016 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these findings are furthering knowledge of hitherto poorly-understood mechanisms that govern interactions between cloned embryos and the uterus. They may hold the key to improving cloning in mammals.

Piglets suckling. © INRA, INRA

Press release

21 Sep 2016

More than 7 million bacterial genes in the pig gut

Pig is a main livestock species for food production worldwide and is also widely used as an animal model in biomedical research. Today we know that the many types of bacteria that inhabit the gut are important for health and disease. Knowledge of the genes of these bacteria and their function therefore constitutes the first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of how bacteria in the gut affect health and disease.

Plaque essay of flu virus (using MDCK cells). © INRA, MARC Daniel

Press release

08 Sep 2016

One Health: the first European Master’s degree in infectious disease control  

The international Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Infectious Diseases and One Health (EMJMD–IDOH), coordinated by the INRA-Université de Tours Joint Research Unit for Infectiology and Public Health, has been selected first among 89 project proposals.