The phrase "a combination of breed" is not correct in standard English usage.
It may be intended to describe a mix of different breeds, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The dog is a combination of breed, showcasing traits from both a Labrador and a Poodle."
Alternatives: "a mix of breeds" or "a hybrid breed".
Approximately 3% of the reads were not mapped to the reference assembly, possibly because of a combination of breed or individual uniqueness, sequencing errors and contamination.
Since N e50 coincides with the breed founding period, here detected selection signatures reflect a combination of breed specific phenotypes and quantitative traits under partly divergent artificial selection in artificially isolated subpopulations.
Although the alley, or common, cat may resemble a pedigreed shorthair, it is not a purebred animal; rather, it is a combination of breeds and may differ considerably in build and coat from the purebred shorthair.
This is why prejudice against the pit bull breed -- which is really a combination of many breeds -- makes no practical sense.
Although the herds have origins going back to the 1970s, since 1995 Angus (black and red) and Simmental sires, or sires that are a combination of these breeds (composite or hybrid sires) have predominantly been used.
Under H.B. 1261, a pit bull is in "a class of dogs that specifically includes the breeds of American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier, American bulldog, and any other pure bred or mixed breed dog that is a combination of these dog breeds".
Hence, the performance of a breed or combination of breeds in a given environment or degree of intervention by management to alleviate environmental stressors, are able to be predicted.
People can easily put together different pieces of information on the fly to make an educated guess about something like a dog's breed, but machines have to be taught using a combination of correct images, expert data about breeds, and machine intelligence.
By sorting genes by the strength of signal mapped to them, we identified the top 200 candidate genes that were deemed as outlier values at 99th percentile of all genes (Additional files 4, 5, 6, and 7: Figure S4, S5, S6 and S7, details in methods) for each combination of breed and detection method.
They are able to predict when both giant pandas are ready to breed by a combination of behavioural observation and hormone testing.
And, like the rest of Afghanistan, they are largely as we have made them, through a combination of kicking and kindness that has bred dependence and resentment, without leaving much of substance.
