Sentences with phrase «ancestral breed»

However, they do have what is called «hybrid vigor,» which makes them generally healthier than either of their parents or other purebred dogs of either ancestral breed.

The DNA report would contain important information such as ancestral breed breakdown percentages of your dog and risks for developing genetic health diseases.

This is likely due to their ancestral breeds also being healthy.

Mixed breeds, on the other hand, can carry the genetic diseases occuring in each of their ancestral breeds.

Although their two primary ancestral breeds — the Labrador Retriever and the Standard Poodle — have both been used successfully as hunting dogs, Labradoodles have not been bred or promoted for this purpose.

Not exact matches

Around 200,000 years later, a small group from our own ancestral line ventured out of Africa and bred with Neanderthals.

These latter deal with the simple household sacrifices and observances connected with such things as building a house, cattle breeding, farming, also rites for the prevention of disease, love rites, the ancestral and funeral rites.

«One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like if it had been born and bred in captivity, then released into its ancestral sea.

Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years, sometimes by inbreeding dogs from the same ancestral lines, sometimes by mixing dogs from very different lines.

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

Seasonal migration — which occurs when species breed in one geographical area and winter in another — is commonly hypothesized to have evolved as ancestral species native to the tropics began to shift their breeding ranges northward.

Some microbes merged with hydrogen - producing microbes (probably multi-functional ancestral mitochondria) to become eukaryotes that later developed into multi-cellular «animals» that survive and breed in anoxic conditions, without oxygen (phylum Loricifera, which includes Spinoloricus at left — more).

That said, it is an ancestral variety which may not have undergone a lot of modification by breeding.

In the meantime, since you clearly love learning about dogs and some of their odd ancestral behaviors, check out these 25 ancient dog breeds that may have contributed to your dog's wacky habits before going extinct!

Dog breeds can be create by mixing dogs from different lines into a new breed, or by interbreeding dogs from the same ancestral line to enhance certain features.

The Paternal Haplotype refers to a dog's deep ancestral lineage stretching back thousands of years, before there were any distinct breeds of dog.

To be clear, what I mean when I say «primitive dog» is a breed of dog who's ancestral primitive nature is still intact.

Certain dog breeds have ancestral roots in fighting, protection and other areas that would have once made breeding for aggression necessary.

While some breeds are routinely subjected to ear - cropping in the United States, this is almost entirely a cosmetic (and in the opinion of most, cruel) surgical mutilation with its roots in the ancestral jobs of certain working breeds, but which has no relevance in the life of a modern dog — and only very mildly helps to combat ear problems, if at all.

Nobody can tell for certain the ancestral origins of the breed.

The red and white dogs, the Blenheims, are named for Blenheim Castle, the ancestral Churchill home, where this variety was extensively bred.

The combination of introgression and past population bottlenecks suggested that basal breeds have little or no genetic connections to their ancestral populations and that their genetic distinctiveness does not signify ancient heritage.

Many authorities today believe our dogs were selectively bred from an ancestral wolf and the wolf is not only a pack animal, it is a den animal.

One study from 2015 by the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School theorized that today's domesticated dogs might owe their ancestral origins to multiple ancient wolf breeds.

Dogs and Cat have been selectively bred for thousands of years, sometimes by inbreeding dogs and cats from the same ancestral lines, sometimes by mixing dogs and cats from very different lines.

Some breed fanciers have also hypothesized that the deer head Chihuahua could come from a cross between the ancestral Techichi and the Chinese Crested.

He also notes that some breeders and owners may have the view that deviating from the ancestral diet of certain breeds might predispose to allergies.

A recent research paper by The Royal Society B studied the DNA and genetic materials of ancestral American breeds along with some current Latin breeds (e.g. Chihuahua, Peruvian hairless dog, etc..)

Terriers and other popular dogs of the time, bred with bulldogs, provided the ancestral foundation stock for the Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Its Regional Red formulation is a classic example of what ancestral dogs eat in the wild, something that Boxers and all other be-muscled breeds today can benefit from.

The question is not, «Which breeds carried this defective gene during their development», but «Which breeds did not lose this defective gene during ancestral development.»

These village dogs breed randomly and have genetic links with most modern breeds, and they are one of the largest single reservoirs of ancestral diversity inherited by descent [22, 25, 26].

The same ancestral autosomal recessive mutation for the progressive rod cone degeneration (prcd) form of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) is found in the American Cocker Spaniel, American Eskimo Dog, Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Shepherd, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Chinese Crested Dog, English Cocker Spaniel, Entelbucher Mountain Dog, Finnish Lapphund, Golden Retriever, Kuvasz, Labrador Retriever, Lapponian Herder, Norwegian Elkhound, Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever, Poodle, Portuguese Water Dog, Silky Terrier, Spanish Water Dog, Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Swedish Lapphund, and Yorkshire Terrier.3 This list continues to grow as more breeds are discovered with the same defective gene.

Possible explanations include several factors such as a too low age limit for breeding, import of breeding dogs with unknown ancestral background, a lower inheritance of MMVD than previously estimated, inadequate compliance to the breeding programs among breeders, and insensitive screening methods.

The breed was developed in Australia, although the ancestral types of dogs from which the breed descends were from Great Britain.

The ancestral source of the defective gene is deep in the pedigrees of present day breeding dogs.

Due to the nature of dog breeding, top stud dogs tend to spread their genes widely, and therefore, become the central convergence points for bringing families together in an ancestral pedigree analysis.

Due to the nature of dog breeding, top stud dogs tend to spread their genes widely, and therefore, become the central convergence points for bringing families together in ancestral pedigree analysis.

This indicates admixture between the Taymyr wolf population and the ancestral dog population of these 4 high - latitude breeds.

It was also developed with ancestral types and breeds from Great Britain.

«Abnormal» phenotypes (and this will rouse the ire of many people who love their dogs and think of them as being «normal») include breeds specifically bred to produce the characteristics that would be agreed on as being «faults» in the ancestral types.

Typical examples of ancestral types are the German Shepherd Dog, Saluki, various Spitz breeds, and many pariah breeds such as found in every corner of the world.

But, faced with photographs of mixed breeds and having to pick more than one ancestral strain, I realized that I don't really know anything about what happens when dogs interbreed.

The history of this hardworking breed includes a long and winding road across continents, with few records kept along the way to know for sure the ancestral roots of the breed.

Furthermore, various dog breeds retain approximately 87 % of the genomic diversity seen in the ancestral wolf [36] suggesting sufficient genetic diversity exists within breeds provided breeders do not homogenize the breeds.