Sentence examples for specific breeding from inspiring English sources

Domestication has caused considerable changes in the morphology and behaviour of livestock species, as has artificial selection for the specific traits that were selected during breed formation and subsequently for specific breeding objectives [ 17].

Djungarian hamsters breed all year round as there is no specific breeding season.

The results show that the process of domestication as well as further artificial selection for specific breeding aims has influenced the development of specific biological processes in horse breeds.

The researchers suggest that the information, and future data gleaned for other species, should prove useful in predicting the effects of winter-habitat destruction on specific breeding populations.

So a feather found in a specific breeding area will have an isotopic pattern that can be compared to feathers found in specific migratory locations.

Some meat comes and goes as the year passes by: native deer, grouse, pheasant … Beef, on the other hand, much like pork and chicken, is much the same all year round – it has no specific breeding season.

Inter-specific breeding offers a way of expanding the gene pool of cultivated rice and enlarging the range of genetic variation available for plant improvement (McCouch et al. 2007).

Since reproductive performance is lower for young than for old birds [37], [39] we estimated age-specific breeding success and the number of fledged young separately for males breeding in the different habitat types (Table 1).

To avoid pseudo-replication in estimates of the amount of variance explained by each environmental axis on fitness, we performed our analyses using either annual (cohort), nestbox-specific or breeding event specific values of environmental quality, depending on the characteristics of each axis (Table 1).

Deficits in maternal behavior and pup rearing were not examined in the present study as they would require specific, complex breeding strategies outside the scope of the present studies.

We anticipate that carrying out RenSeq on other assembled plant genomes would increase the number of annotated NB-LRR sequences and will enable more targeted and specific resistance breeding strategies.