Thus, our simple discrete model of the animal breeding problem provides a novel viable and robust approach to designing and comparing breeding strategies in captive populations.
You might think that the way to solve the captive-panda breeding problem would be to turn the whole thing over to pairs like Gao Gao and Bai Yun, but superfertile animals create problems of their own.
In this paper, we propose the first discrete model of the controlled animal breeding problem and analyse heuristics for two possible objectives: (1) breeding for maximum diversity and (2) breeding a target individual.
Multiple-objective programming was used to examine the effects various objectives had on the optimal portfolio of sires chosen for a given breeding problem in a Jersey cow dairy herd.
Meanwhile, as the complexity of the trait increase, breeding problems increase, for example, favorable alleles in exotic genetic resources are in unadapated genetic backgrounds and linked to other unfavorable alleles.
Clients are willing to spend big bucks (up to $60,000 for a Tibetan Mastiff), and they are probably also ready to sue the matchmaker if any breeding problems arise.
However, for most animal breeding problems, the value of a mating depends on which other matings are made.
The groups say high water flows in parts of the river in the summer cause nesting and breeding problems for at least two species of birds and one type of fish.
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been suggested as a significant tool in overcoming breeding problems and broadening the gene pool for species conservation [ 3].
It is clear that the rice research community needs to work together to more effectively apply the genomic knowledge and techniques to solve practical rice breeding problems.
