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More productive cattle are badly needed in the tropics, and complex theories are doing little to help. But crossing between the best Bos taurus and Bos indicus cattle and selective breeding from the offspring could do as much for animal production in the tropics today as similar procedures did in temperate areas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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FRANCIS, J. Breeding Cattle for the Tropics. Nature 227, 557–560 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227557a0
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