Just in case we have missed the connection, Johnson provides an ironic little shove in the right direction: Mrs. Pace, a wise American writer living in Paris, tells the heroine of "Le Divorce," a California-bred version of Lambert Strether, that she should read the novels of Henry James.
When the Hecks first bred their version of the aurochs, they were looking primarily for domestic cattle that looked vaguely aurochs-y in an attempt to breed a pre-industrial super cow that might yield more meat, and then went from there.
The story that most consumers (or foodies, at least) will recognize is that of the Honeynut, which came about when Barber challenged Mazourek to breed a version of butternut squash that could be delicious without the addition of maple syrup or brown sugar.
Dr. Ault's effort is part of a 17-year-old program, Chicagoland Grows, to breed new versions of native plants and promote them commercially.
A turkey's breast is huge and largely tasteless, but because so many of us stupidly prefer white meat, we've bred the domestic version of the species specifically to produce the most amount of this meat possible – creating, in the process, a bland and horrible science-fiction monster that tips over on its belly and can't even naturally reproduce itself.
Though probably outnumbered by Jacks just now, they are the older, more established breed; one version of Jack Russells, a country cousin, was developed in the eighteenth century by a British divine who gave the breed its official moniker, the Parson Russell Terrier.
Pääbo and Enard had some mice bred with a humanized version of the gene, and then studied them from just about every possible angle.
Mazourek hopes that farmers and gardeners will participate in helping breed better versions of the cuke by sharing their results back with the company.
Some of the experiments studied children; others looked at laboratory rats bred to have an animal version of attention deficit disorder.
To see if this discovery could help prevent liver disease, the researchers bred transgenic mice with the version of C/EBPB that couldn't bind phosphorus.
In older mice bred to develop an animal version of Alzheimer's disease, a 28-day regimen of citalopram arrested the growth of beta-amyloid plaques and reduced the appearance of new plaques by 78%.
