Sentence examples for breeding context from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, particularly in an animal breeding context, an indicator trait is used to describe the impact of infection or disease upon an individual, for example somatic cell count in the milk of lactating ruminants with mastitis [10].

Due to the latter two properties, quantitative resistances are today considered more useful in a breeding context than qualitative resistances.

Populations of paternal half-sib families were simulated, resembling a simplified population structure in an animal breeding context with large half-sib offspring groups per sire like in dairy cattle.

The approach of using a training set that combines different groups also has been studied in a plant breeding context for genomic prediction of oat (Asoro et al. 2011) and barley (Lorenz et al. 2012).

The Bayes factor developed by Verdinelli and Wasserman [ 11] from generalization of the Savage-Dickey density ratio, and adapted to the animal breeding context by García-Cortés et al. [ 18] and Varona et al. [ 12], has been easily applied to check heterogeneous residual variances in gene expression analyses when two groups of treatments are compared.

In forest tree breeding context, GS has the ability to predict the phenotype for selecting elite genotypes at early age and developmental stage, thus substantially shortening the breeding cycle and increasing the selection differential, ultimately raising the genetic gain per unit time [ 13- 16].

Our results support the idea that ANN with Bayesian regularization can act as universal approximators of linear or non-linear functions of interest in breeding contexts.

They may prove to be valuable in some plant diversity, selection and breeding contexts, allowing larger samples and complementing use of DNA markers.

ANN with Bayesian regularization performed as well as linear Bayesian regression models in predicting additive genetic values, supporting the idea that ANN are useful as universal approximators of functions of interest in breeding contexts.

We have shown (I) that the OB is only able to readily detect milfoil odour during the breeding season, (II) that there is less manganese in the OB when milfoil odour is offered, (III) that the OB size changes over the year (even within non-breeding context) and (IV) that exogenous testosterone implants have an effect on the (relative) OB size during the non-breeding season.

In this context, breeding animals with rare profiles have become popular and used extensively, which has definitely contributed to inflate inbreeding rates.