Sentence examples for mass selection has from inspiring English sources
Mass selection has long been a major method of breeding cross-pollinated species, especially in the economically less important species.
Mass selection has proved to be very effective in improving qualitative characters, and, applied over many generations, it is also capable of improving quantitative characters, including yield, despite the low heritability of such characters.
Furthermore, mass selection has been increasingly tainted by illegitimacy indictments through stringent formal seed market regulations, aimed at ensuring seed quality, consumer protection and high productivity rates.
In schemes with CAND information, h2 = 1 is the same as mass selection for both BLUP and GS and the impact of non-random mating on mass selection has been explored by Caballero et al. [ 6].
While the layer chicken cannot be regarded as the broiler's ancestral phenotype, it has not been submitted to such intensive selection for increased body mass (selection has mainly focused on reproductive traits) and its growth rate is similar to that of the mallard.
Schemes in which selection is based directly on phenotypic information, such as mass selection, have a lower reduction in response due to the Bulmer effect than GS or traditional BLUP schemes.
Since then, sustained selection has further increased muscle mass of Belgian Blue animals to a comparable extent.
Selection has thus been relaxed but fitness has been maintained so decreasing body masses can be considered adaptive here.
Artificial selection has been suggested as a method of improving the effectiveness of the natural enemies during mass-rearing (Rutledge and Wiedenmann 2003).
The selection has never been good at Yankee Stadium, where you were lucky to find a Guinness Stout among the mass-market brands sold at absurd prices.
