Caribou (known as reindeer in Europe) make one of the longest seasonal migrations of land animals, but an individual’s propensity to migrate depends on its genetic ancestry, Maria Cavedon at the University of Calgary in Canada and colleagues report in a study publishing February 10th in the open-access journal PLOS Genetics.
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Source: Phys.org