Sentence examples for expected breeding from inspiring English sources

In a way, modeling of weighted deregressed expected breeding values may be considered an approach to account of heterogeneous variance, in this case the variance of the expected breeding value.

We expected wolves to prefer areas of low road density in order to avoid human disturbance, and we expected breeding wolves to show a stronger avoidance than nonbreeders.

Non random use of sires, poor genetic connectedness and small herd size had a large impact on the estimated covariance functions, expected breeding values and calculated environmental parameters.

It is often the case that deregressed expected breeding values are weighted and used as response variables in WGP models (Garrick et al. 2009) instead of actual phenotypes.

In breeding programmes worldwide, more and more young bulls with genomic expected breeding values (GEBVs) are used.

An accurate modelling of the expected breeding values of unknown parents will lead to the creation of many groups, each one with only a few animals.

Production of prairie-nesting northern pintails (Anas acuta) was lower than expected by breeding population distribution based on isotope values in feather samples obtained from juvenile birds harvested in areas of western Canada [18].

In this context, positive D values could be the consequence of population bottlenecks, population subdivision or balancing selection as would be expected in breeding populations.

A related but not equivalent approach is to maximize the gene diversity in the offspring with or without constraining its expected mean breeding value to a predefined value.

We believe, that the general distribution of expected mosquito breeding sites is realistically represented by the resulting pattern (Additional file 1: Figure S15).

The program for optimum contribution selection allows adding the constraint that the expected mean breeding value of the offspring does not fall below a certain value.