Sentence examples for isolated breed from inspiring English sources

The Icelandic horse has developed as an isolated breed since the settlement of the country in the 8th and 9th century.

Furthermore, genome information for Kuchinoshima-Ushi is expected to be important not only in revealing the genetic structure of a geographically isolated breed originating from ancient, native Japanese cattle but also in identifying genetic traits that distinguish domestic breeds from original, undomesticated species.

The NCA breed from the Canary Islands seems to share some genetic influences with the Celtic group, but it has become an isolated breed that is very distinct from all the others.

This ancient and isolated breed of sheep occupy an ecological niche on the foreshore of North Ronaldsay island in the Orkney archipelago, where they have been exposed to a copper-impoverished diet, mainly seaweed [Cu < 5 ppm], for so long that they have evolved mechanisms to maintain adequate copper reserves [ 6].

This allele is considered as the wild (ancestral) allele as all other alleles are only different from it by a single nucleotide substitution and it is present in all sheep breeds with noticeably high frequency in some genetically isolated breeds such as Soay and Icelandic sheep [17].

Dogs consist of over 400 genetically isolated breeds with considerable morphological and behavioural diversity.

Creole cattle and local isolated breeds retain a high level of genetic diversity.

Moreover, there are several hundred isolated breeds of dogs, and each has a vastly reduced genetic variation.

Our results indicate that Creole cattle breeds retain considerable levels of genetic diversity and that several local isolated breeds are important reservoirs of genetic diversity.

The geographical breed clusters with the highest within-group kinship values (red areas in Figure  2b and [see Additional file 2: Figure S1b]) were Creole3 (MEK = 0.200 and fm = 0.297), which includes the threatened Colombian breeds Costeño con Cuernos and Romosinuano, and Iberian3 (MEK = 0.172 and fm = 0.271), which includes two isolated breeds from the Canary Islands.

Heterozygous chimeric mice were isolated and bred to generate Sulf2 mutant animals.