{"id":14724,"date":"2016-11-03T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2016-11-03T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:09:26","slug":"a-30-billion-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/a-30-billion-gene\/","title":{"rendered":"A $30 Billion Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110316_0300_A30BillionG1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Zhang wrote about the market for cow genes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farm Arlinda Chief was a bull born in 1962 with unusually good milk producing genes.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, having a bull with good milk producing genes is basically worthless. Which is why he fathered 16,000 milk producing daughters.<\/li>\n<li>Today he has 2 million great-granddaughters and 14% of all cows of his breed in the dairy industry carry his genes.<\/li>\n<li>All in all, his milk producing genes are thought to have created $30 billion worth of additional milk production, compared to if an average bull had fathered the same daughters.<\/li>\n<li>He is, in part, responsible for the quadrupling of the milk production of an average cow since the 1960s.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s not perfect. It turns out he had a genetic defect that led to a mutation which caused some to die in the womb. It is estimated that this defect has created $420 million worth of industry losses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/10\/the-dairy-industry-lost-420-million-from-a-flaw-in-a-single-bull\/505616\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Zhang wrote about the market for cow genes: Farm Arlinda Chief was a bull born in 1962 with unusually good milk producing genes. Of course, having a bull with good milk producing genes is basically worthless. Which is why he fathered 16,000 milk producing daughters. Today he has 2 million great-granddaughters and 14% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110316_0300_A30BillionG1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14727,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions\/14727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}