Sentences with phrase «diverse gene pool»

Marr said he found support for his approach online — a beekeeper in Nebraska who recommends building a strong and diverse gene pool with wild bees instead of commercially bred mail - order shipments; minimizing pesticide exposure by locating the hives far away from cultivated farm fields; avoiding antibiotic and other chemical treatments to fight bee parasites and diseases, instead relying on beneficial fungi, bacteria and other components of a healthy hive system; and then raising queens and new bees from those bees that survive the first year.

Recognizing that no dog is genetically perfect; that maintaining a rich and diverse gene pool is important for the long - term health of the breed; and that good breeding decisions must balance many factors, it is suggested that breeders give the highest health priority to selection against heritable disorders that significantly decrease quality of life and that have the greatest likelihood for improvement through careful breeding decisions.

In a shelter, you will most likely find mixed breed dogs, but the risk of genetic problems is much lower because they come from a more diverse gene pool.

Because we strive to create a balanced labrador with a diverse gene pool, most of our litters are very suitable for most families who want well - rounded companions.

Outcrossing is still actively done to insure a healthy breed with a wide and diverse gene pool, and it is working!

Mutts are usually healthier due to driving for a more diverse gene pool than a Purebred dog.

The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.

This is unusual because invasive species with greater genetic diversity often have a greater chance at survival — a more diverse gene pool means more variety in traits of individuals for natural selection to act upon and allow the species to survive and thrive in a new area.

«Our recovery could be stalled, at best, by failing to be able to insert a more diverse gene pool into the existing wild population.»

When dealing with common breeds involving large, diverse gene pools, identified carriers can be eliminated with small risk of adversely narrowing the gene pool.

Not exact matches

Without a more diverse pool of genes to pull from, your plants are much more likely to fall victim to some inherited disease.

Researchers and conservationists plan to use the animal's genome to selectively breed diverse individuals, widening the gene pool and making future generations more resistant to diseases.

Samples collected from soil contained the most diverse pool of resistance genes, the authors found.

«Our studies clearly show that widespread species have a much more diverse intraspecific gene pool than species that are adapted to a specific habitat,» explains Dr. Jan Christian Habel of the Technical University in Munich, and he continues, «Once these animals — due to the fragmentation of their habitats — lose the opportunity to maintain this genetic diversity by means of exchange, they will no longer be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the future.»

According to expert at one point in time, our endemic birds had lost much of their population then rose back in numbers, meaning that in the actual the gene pool is less diverse that it used to be, creating a genetic bottle neck.

The samples, if handled properly, could be placed back into ecosystems to keep the gene pool diverse, which serves to keep populations health and viable.

A new study of genetic diversity in the breed has revealed that the existing bulldog genetic stock is not diverse enough to allow breeders to improve the breed's health via genetic manipulation from within the gene pool.

To keep our gene pool diverse, we should not discard dogs from breeding programs simply because they are related to a dog affected with CA.

As the gene pool of FCRs becomes less and less diverse with each generation, the likelihood that mutations such as PRA will surface as we know it is lurking in some of the pedigrees of our long - deceased foundation dogs.