Landscape Genetics

Intrabreed genetic differentiation of local breeds of mongolian cattle and small stock under different ecogeographic breeding conditions
http://pubag.nal.usda.gov/pubag/article.xhtml?id=201313&searchText=subject_term%3A%22yaks%22

All I can access is the first page of this paper.
http://static-content.springer.com/lookinside/art%3A10.3103%2FS1068367412020103/000.png
These concepts of genogeography and landscape genetics are something I want to study.
Would a more academic person help me access the full text or suggest other research that is current relating these ideas to cattle.
There is a site, Econogene, that covers goats and sheep in this regard. It's interesting.

And, related in a systems way, DNAe, Environmental DNA
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320714004443
Thanks, if you can help

Well, studying this turned into a real education on the history of genetic research and evolutionary theory in Russia.
Aleksandr Sergeevich Serebrovskii http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830905327.html
Came up with the term genogeography.
Many brilliant geneticists were killed during his lifetime but, despite a detour into eugenics, he managed to survive.
Nikolai Vavilov did not. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov
I'm putting up what I learned about this man to help all of us understand the urgency of knabe's views a little better and just to honor Mr. Vavilov.

While developing his theory on the centres of origin of cultivated plants, Vavilov organized a series of botanical-agronomic expeditions, and collected seeds from every corner of the globe. In Leningrad, he created the world's largest collection of plant seeds.[10] Vavilov also formulated the law of homologous series in variation.[11] He was a member of the USSR Central Executive Committee, President of All-Union Geographical Society and a recipient of the Lenin Prize.

Vavilov repeatedly criticised the non-Mendelian concepts of Trofim Lysenko, who won the support of Joseph Stalin. As a result, Vavilov was arrested on August 6, 1940, while on an expedition to Ukraine. He was sentenced to death in July 1941. In 1942 his sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment; he died in prison in 1943,[12] of starvation.[13]

The Leningrad seedbank was diligently preserved through the 28-month Siege of Leningrad. While the Soviets had ordered the evacuation of art from the Hermitage, they had not evacuated the 250,000 samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in what was then the world's largest seedbank. So a group of scientists at the Vavilov Institute boxed up a cross section of seeds, moved them to the basement, and took shifts protecting them. Those guarding the seedbank refused to eat its contents, even though by the end of the siege in the spring of 1944, nine of them had died of starvation.[8]

In 1943, parts of Vavilov's collection, samples stored within the territories occupied by the German armies, mainly in Ukraine and Crimea, were seized by the Germans. Many of the samples were transferred to the SS Institute for Plant Genetics, which had been established at the Lannach Castle near Graz, Austria.[14]

Botanist Nikolai Vavilov's mugshot, taken at the time of his arrest.
Earlier in life, with William Bateson

Here is a link that will take you to a page with a pdf file of what should be that full study, if you were still looking for it.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S1068367412020103#page-1


That makes for an amazing yet horribly ironic story, starving to death while guarding the world's largest seed bank.

I have been feeling very bad for Vavilov this week, but this is about epigenetics.
I read a lot this week about Lysenko, trying to figure out if his idea that the metabolism of an organism could be altered by the environment in heritable ways was actually an insight into epigenetics.  The problem with his idea is that the changes he induced were not heritable, resulting in crop failure and famine.
Lysenko also had a national plan to cross small Jersey bulls onto larger local breeds to increase milk butterfat content and production. Related to the concept that a small bull must be used on a big cow to ensure heritability was his slogan "the zygote is no fool." Supposedly the zygote could tell if it was going to develop beyond the ability of the cow to deliver it. Not sure about that...
But back to Vavilov.
In the epilogue of The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research: An Introduction to the Lysenko Affair By William deJong-Lambert, I learned that a crater on the Moon is named for Vavilov.
Rather than a tribute, this seems more like ultimate desolation and furthest exile.
https://books.google.com/books?id=GzxvfRbIMbAC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=crater+moon+vavilov&source=bl&ots=kxCkVzRSZ7&sig=BoeTdhaiEEWO4fOSn9X3i8WptlE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6uceVdHNDofjsASgp4GoBg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=crater%20moon%20vavilov&f=false
A picture of Lysenko, who has been likened to Rasputin.