Sentence examples for Preliminary breeding from inspiring English sources

To this end, a preliminary breeding objective (which landowners may choose to exceed) of 1.6 million psi average whole-tree stiffness has been proposed (Jayawickrama et al. 2009).

Nine-month-old mice were injected subcutaneously with doses of ALA (33 mg kg−1), resveratrol (10 mg kg−1), CoQ10 (22 mg kg−1), or placebo (sesame oil) three times a week for a period of at least 12 weeks as shorter treatment did not show beneficial effects in preliminary breeding trials.

The mosquitoes were sampled from a variety of breeding sites in a preliminary attempt to investigate the role of contamination of mosquito breeding sites in selecting for resistance in adult mosquitoes.

This distance was chosen because preliminary tests showed that king penguins breeding in the BDM colony become behaviouraly alert when approached by humans from a distance of 10 m or less (Groscolas & Viblanc, unpublished data).

A preliminary study was conducted to test whether breeding values that were estimated from the additive effects of SNPs, could be used as a predictive measure of phenotypic sex or length, respectively.

A preliminary neutronic assessment of the performances of a helium-cooled Li8PbO6 breeding blanket for the conceptual design of a DEMO fusion reactor is given.

Since the Msh3 gene is on murine chromosome 13, triple heterozygous Msh2+/−Msh6+/−Msh3+/− were generated by breeding cis Msh2+/−Msh6+/− with Msh3+/− mice as a preliminary step to the generation of triple knockout animals.

Indications of breeding operation regime for thermal HSR systems are sought by performing preliminary simulations of this core.

These findings are consistent with clinical anecdotes and preliminary trials indicating that aversive conditioning of SEAM in stallions suppresses sexual arousal and breeding behavior.

This is illustrated by a preliminary analysis, where we traced the genetic gain and inbreeding realised by (i) a breeding scheme with unrestricted OCS at penalty 50, and (ii) three schemes with truncation selection.

The target of a preliminary blanket concept design study at the first stage is to promote the performance of breeding blanket in preference to any other.