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Rebecca R. Cockrum, PhD
Breeding and Genetics Laboratory
Assistant Professor - Dairy Geneticist
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2021 Microbiomes of various maternal body systems are predictive of calf digestive bacterial ecology
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2021 "Soft"-ware disease: The new foreign body syndrome in dairy cattle.
2021 Bioplastic development for farm sustainability
2021 Heat stress and fetal programming in dairy cattle: multi-generational effects.
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Featured peer-reviewed publications


Press release articles
-Only Murders in the Building
"Embrace the mess. That's where the good stuff lives."
PUBLICATIONS
Owens et al., 2021
Owens et al., 2020
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