The phrase "a function of breeding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing genetics, animal husbandry, or the influence of breeding on characteristics or behaviors.
Example: "The differences in temperament among the dogs can be attributed to a function of breeding, as certain traits are emphasized through selective mating."
Alternatives: "a result of breeding" or "an outcome of breeding".
A dog's behavior is a function of breeding, yes, but also just as strongly affected by socialization, training, environment, and how it's treated by its owners.
To examine potential risk factors associated with abnormality prevalence in Alaskan wood frogs, we performed a regression analysis of skeletal and eye abnormalities as a function of breeding site characteristics and covariates.
To assess whether, despite the wide uncertainties surrounding additive genetic variance, laboratory resistance and growth experiments could help predict field survival of related individuals in the absence of other information, we modeled the likelihood of death as a function of the breeding values for growth and resistance traits estimated from the trees' siblings in the nursery.
a, The model is built from the following three main components: species' energetic costs (a function of the location of breeding and non breeding ranges, comprising thermoregulation, reproduction and migration costs); energy supply (derived from the NDVI, and variable across space and seasons); and 1,000 simulated range options (the same size as the average bird seasonal range size).
Fusion breeding blanket as one of the key in-vessel components performs the functions of breeding the tritium, removing the nuclear heat and heat flux from plasma chamber as well as acting as part of shielding system.
In panel B of Figure 1, I have tried to evaluate the fertility of breeding pairs as a function of mutation loads and inbreeding coefficients.
They also suggest that hybrid advantage is a function of three factors: (i) breeding-method efficiency (rate-of-progress); (ii) negative or positive effects of the system used to produce the hybrid; and (iii) the inherent level of heterosis.
Fertility and adult survival were the most important high level parameters affecting population growth, where fertility is a function of fecundity and temporal variability in breeding likelihood.
Frequency change of CI was then calculated as a function of the variance in infection frequency between breeding groups.
These 15 litters were chosen among those containing candidates, by selecting the best litters as a function of their parental PEBV for the population breeding goal, giving priority to litters of boars with the fewest offspring among the already chosen phenotyped sibs and balancing the number of litters chosen from each herd.
The habitat model predicts the habitat suitability for breeding and wintering through a maximum entropy principle approach (MaxEnt) (Phillips and Miroslav 2008) as a function of the recorded species occurrences in the breeding and wintering season, the predicted land cover, and a geology layer.
