The identification of similarity groups could be useful for the selection of parental plants to be used in the breeding programs.
An entire group could be made invisible.
We have shown that marker-based models could achieve, in most cases, almost 90% of the accuracy of pedigree-based models, and that data from breeding groups and sites could be combined without noticeably affecting the accuracy results.
However, combining full-sib families of several breeding groups could make it possible to develop GS models with high accuracies, as it was observed in the present study when individuals were pooled across breeding groups (scenarios S1 or S1 → S2).
Consequently, our first task was to examine the scaling properties of nest spatial distribution in order to detect relevant scales at which breeding group size variation could be studied.
Given that aromatase converts testosterone to estradiol and we report low levels of circulating testosterone in all female groups, the increased Cyp19a1 mRNA in breeding females could be associated with aromatase acting on other androgenic substrates.
All reviewers concurred that the use of telemetric acoustic recordings in a naturalistic social environment of a breeding group was novel and if you could do a better job of presenting what was interesting about your discoveries, this could be an eLife paper.
When combining both breeding groups, a breeding group structure was introduced, although short-range LD should not differ between these breeding groups as they are believed to belong to the same ancestral population [ 18].
(The Copenhagen Zoo has considered, and rejected, the idea of breeding animals that could be supplied to visitors as meat).
