Sentence examples for preferred traits from inspiring English sources

This study was conducted to determine the economic weights of most preferred traits in young breeding Nguni bulls and first parity cows.

Focusing on Zimbabwe, this research aimed at estimating the implicit prices farmers are willing to pay for drought tolerance in maize compared to other preferred traits.

The presence of both additive and non-additive gene action for most preferred traits indicates the need to have specific breeding strategies that exploits both gene actions.

Information on genetic inheritance of farmer preferred traits is fundamental in selection of parents and breeding strategies for an effective participatory plant breeding.

The aim of this study was to characterize the indigenous goat production systems and assess in a participatory manner farmer preferred traits for establishing breeding objectives for indigenous goat breeds in Uganda.

As a result selection pressures lead individuals to display these preferred traits.

One possibility is that males prefer traits tied to female fecundity, which could provide a direct benefit for male mate choice, especially under conditions where sperm limitation is a possibility (Edward and Chapman 2011).

It must be fun to have preferred physical traits.

For these reasons, external meristic traits were preferred over morphometric traits, as the latter are further complicated by allometry, which allow us to include also juvenile specimens in the study.

Modifying humans genetically to create some superior race of people or simply to chose one preferred visual trait over another has been debated among scientists, politicians and others ad nauseam.

Thus, hybridization occurs when the female lacks access to conspecific males, mistakes species-recognition signals, or in some cases prefers heterospecific traits [ 22, 25- 27].