Domestic pigs reproduce through a breeding process that is closely managed on farms around the world. During mating, a male pig, known as a boar, mounts the female, called a sow, in a behavior driven ...

Feeding the world in the midst of climate change and an ever-growing population demands scientists have access to scalable, flexible and sustainable genomic tools that add value to animal breeding ...

Cooperative breeding is a social system in which individuals assist conspecifics in raising offspring that are not their own, often foregoing or delaying independent reproduction. This phenomenon ...