Sentence examples for narrow breeding from inspiring English sources

Female pandas are receptive only once a year, and sometimes are fertile for less than a day — an unusually narrow breeding window.

Likewise in P. taeniatus, the only other biparental substrate breeding cichlid with confirmed genetic monogamy, Langen et al. (2013) attributed the absence of EPFs to continuous mate guarding and the narrow breeding cavity entrance to diminish the threat from sneakers.

Ongoing selective breeding and narrowing of the breeding pool may have also reduced effective population size in some domesticated lineages (Medugorac et al. 2009).

Donald Bixby, executive director of the conservancy said: "With industrial turkeys, everyone is breeding for a narrow range of production characteristics.

Annually from May to August, this cuttlefish species forms mass breeding aggregations on narrow strips of rocky reef in the northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia [13], [14].

Since we worked with breeding materials, a narrower ranger of genetic diversity than previous domesticated populations were expected [ 15].

Their high values, ranging from 0.829 to 0.994, showed the narrow genetic base of the University of Minnesota breeding program.

These combined with the fact that the genetic diversity of cucumber is very narrow are major factors limiting cucumber breeding.

The genetic base of this breeding population is quite narrow, with ∼50% of the six-row germplasm in North America tracing to five ancestors (Martin et al. 1991).

The wide adaptability of mega-varieties has influenced breeding programs towards using a narrow pool of germplasm with good agronomic performance records.

Crop plants have a narrow genetic base because of domestication and breeding.