Sentences with phrase «genetically pure populations»

Genetically pure populations of westslope cutthroat trout are known to occupy less than 10 percent of their historical range.

There is a plan, however, to maintain a genetically pure population of Cuban crocodiles by breeding the species and then releasing them into the wild.

Not exact matches

«They are very different from pure - bred dogs genetically because they are free - breeding, so in a genetic sense, they are a natural population.»

«We found that while hybridisation has not compromised the genetic distinctiveness of wolf populations, a large number of wild wolves in Eurasia carry a small proportion of gene variants derived from dogs, leading to the ambiguity of how we define genetically «pure wolves».

This suggests that the definition of genetically «pure» wolves can be ambiguous and identifying admixed individuals can be difficult, implying that management strategies based on removal of suspected hybrids from wolf populations may be inefficient.

As shown in the Lykoi cats — a doctor who picked a genetically mutated cat out of a stray population — all pure - breeds come from a lineage of one or multiple naturally occurring genetic mutations.