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  1. Newsgroups: sci.bio
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!claird
  3. From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
  4. Subject: Re: artificial breeding
  5. Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
  6. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:32:39 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <BznxMG.F3A@NeoSoft.com>
  8. Keywords: artificial, natural, breeding, selection
  9. References: <ldsoderb.725021254@reading>
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  12. In article <ldsoderb.725021254@reading> ldsoderb@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (David S. Oderberg) writes:
  13. >Can someone please recommend a recent review article which discusses the
  14. >following question: Has artificial breeding/selection, including recent
  15. >efforts in biotech., produced any new species?
  16.             .
  17.             .
  18.             .
  19. Yes.
  20.  
  21. Or perhaps I misunderstand the question.  Many
  22. domesticates, including dogs, cats, cattle,
  23. maize, guar, probably tomato, wheat, triticale,
  24. some begonias, tangelos, perhaps modern straw-
  25. berry, grapefruit, ..., are different species
  26. than existed before or outside of domestication.
  27. Is that what you wanted?
  28. -- 
  29.  
  30. Cameron Laird
  31. claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net)    +1 713 267 7966
  32. claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net)      +1 713 996 8546
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