Newsletter

The fifteen issue of issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter," published on 20 July 2010, has the following table of content:

• Editorial: 2010: The second GLOBALDIV Workshop
• Article of the month: RBST/Roslin Institute - UK Poultry Genetic Diversity Project
• The Breed of the month: Swiss Original Braunvieh
• GLobalDiv Events
• Events calendar
• GlobalDiv Bibliography

The fourteenth issue of issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter", published on 24 April 2010, has the following table of content:

• Editorial: 2010: What does it mean for Farm Animal Genetic Resources? A perspective from the UK
• Article of the month – Current strategies to characterize Farm Animal Genetic Resources
• The breed of the month - Finnsheep: A Northern Speciality
• GlobalDiv events

The thirteen issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter", published on 28 February 2010, has the following table of content:

• Editorial: The NEXTGEN project: whole-genome sequencing for preserving cattle, sheep, and goat biodiversity
• Article of the month - Livestock and biological diversity: grazing natural and semi-natural grasslands
• The BREED of the month: - The Amiatino donkey
• GlobalDiv Event
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The twelfth issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter", published on 30 December 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial: PAG - The Plant and Animal Genome conference: a glimpse into the future of animal and plant genetics
• Article of the month - The Yakutian cattle: A cow of the permafrost
• The breed (??) of the month - The Alpaca
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The eleventh issue  of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 30 November 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - Second GLOBALDIV Summer School
• Article of the month - Cattle Whole Genome Sequencing Milestone
• Breed of the Month: Sheko Cattle
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The tenth issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 31 August 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - Agricultural policies and farm animal biodiversity in Europe
• Article of the month - Is crossbreeding a problem or a solution for tropical world?
• The Breed of the month - The Indo-Brazilian zebu
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The ninth issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 15 June 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - The first GLOBALDIV Workshop, Bydgoszcz (Poland)18-19 March 2009
• Article of the month - Databases and biodiversity: from single databases to a global network
• The breed of the month: Green-legged Partridgelike. An old native polish hen
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The eight issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 30 March 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - On crossbreeding and genetic purity: may we join what has been separated?
• Article of the month – Goat domestication
• A newly developed breed of semi-fine wool sheep, the first in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, China but could also be the latest in the world
• Calendar
• Bibliography

The seventh issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 30 January 2009, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - Animal genetic resources in the dialogue between Biodiversity and Agricultures
• Article of the month - Case studies: a tool bridging science and realities
• The breed of the month - The Cinta Senese pig
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The sixth issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 30 November 2008, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - First GLOBALDIV Summer School
• Article of the month: Towards self-sustainable European, Regional CAttle breeds (EURECA)
• The breed of the month: Eastern Finncattle
• Events calendar
• Bibliography

The fifth issue of the "GlobalDiv Newsletter, published on 1st September 2008, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - Perspectives for poultry genetic resources
• Article of the month – Molecular characterization of genetic diversity in chickens
• The breed of the month – Establishing a conservation flock in "Vorwerkhuhn" chicken breed - a case study of in-situ conservation of local chicken
• Events calendar

The fourth issue of the "GLOBALDIV Newsletter", published on 27 July 2008, has the following table of content:

• Editorial - A breed is a breed if enough people say it is

• News
  Globaldiv Summer School

• The breed of the month

  • The ‘Big Five’ African Vintage Cows

  • Kuri

• Article of the month

• North-to-South Livestock Gene Flows Crowd out Local Breeds

• Events calendar

• Bibliography

The Third issue of the "GLOBALDIV Newsletter", published on 29 May 2008, has the following table of content:
        • EDITORIAL - THE FAO GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES.
        • NEWS
                o GLOBALDIV Summer School – Application Open!
        • THE BREED OF THE MONTH: Ankole cattle
        • EVENTS CALENDAR
        • BIBLIOGRAPHY
The PDF version of the third issue of the Newsletter (244 Kb) is available here

The second issue of the " GLOBALDIV Newsletter", published on 27 February 2008, has the following table of content:
        • EDITORIAL - CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
        • NEWS
                o GLOBALDIV 2nd Meeting
        • ARTICLES
        • EVENTS CALENDAR
The PDF version of the second issue of the Newsletter (210 Kb) is available here

The first issue of the " GLOBALDIV Newsletter", published on 5 December 2007 has the following table of content:
        • EDITORIAL
        • GLOBALDIV PROJECT ABSTRACT
        • WORKING GROUPS TOPICS:
                o WG2 – Characterization of FAnGR diversity
                o WG3 – Meta analysis of diversity
                o WG4 – Socio economic aspects of conservation
                o WG5 – Integrating data and setting priorities for conservation
        • NEWS
        • GLOBALDIV 1st Meeting
        • RECENT RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO BIODIVERSITY
        • CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES
        • COURSES
The PDF version of the first issue of the Newsletter (300 Kb) is available here

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