Sentences with phrase «from modern breeds»

As in a 2004 study that found 9 «ancient breeds» to be genetically divergent, the study found 13 breeds that were genetically divergent from the modern breeds: the Basenji, Saluki, Afghan hound, Samoyed, Canaan dog, New Guinea singing dog, dingo, Chow Chow, Chinese Shar Pei, Akita, Alaskan malamute, Siberian husky and American Eskimo dog.

They are distinctive from the modern breeds because the genetic heritage of the modern breeds has become blurred due to admixture, and the basal breeds have mostly avoided admixture with them due to geographic or cultural barriers.

Not exact matches

Selective breeding has made the spines disappear from modern eggplants.

Because of the widespread alienation of people from the resources of their unconscious, modern society breeds psychological problems as a swamp breeds mosquitos.

Nearly all modern fruits, vegetables, meats and animal products are derived from thousands of years of selective breeding to increase size and fat / sugar content.

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

The genes of 50 top bulls have been sequenced in an effort to understand how genes from temperate cattle have influenced important production traits in the modern Brahman breed.

They also took samples from 4676 pure - bred «modern» dogs of 161 breeds, many of European origin.

«Apart from stallion lines in Northern European breeds, all stallion lines detected in other modern breeds derive from more recently introduced Oriental ancestors,» says Barbara Wallner at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Apart from a few private Northern European haplotypes, all modern horse breeds included in the study clustered into a roughly 700 - year - old haplogroup, transmitted to Europe by the import of Oriental stallions, they report.

The researchers said their analysis indicated that the modern representatives of these breeds were recreated in more recent times from combinations of other breeds.

Third, we capitalized on the recent publication of known genotypes at 54,602 SNP loci for ca. 400 horses from 32 modern domesticated breeds (8).

This at least 5,500 - y - long process, which ultimately transformed wild horses into the hundreds of breeds living today, is difficult to reconstruct from archeological data and modern genetics alone.

The oldest modern dog breeds are no more than 500 years old, and most date only from ~ 150 years ago.

A team of researchers from across Europe has found that human breeding practices, particularly during the Iron Age, are likely the cause of a lack of variability in paternally inherited DNA in modern horses.

While this success may not be possible for everyone, this should certainly offer a more sensible direction for us to pursue what may be more sensible than going through the challenging exercise of making gluten - free baked goods from substances like almond, potato, tapioca, and bean flours, which may or may not be necessary for a short period of time while you re-introduce your digestive tract to the high - vitamin, mineral, and fiber - endowed heritage grains such as einkorn, emmer, spelt and even some heritage organic whole wheat or one of our more modern organic whole wheat breeds that are grown without chemical treatments.

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

We know we are in the wrong and that God's teaching tells us to be pure and wait A purebred dog is a dog of a modern breed of dog, with written documentation showing the individual purebred dog's descent from its breeds» foundation

The rationale for learning technology has shifted too, from simply a system of record (the primary purpose of the traditional LMS), towards engagement (the purpose of the modern LMS), towards systems of productivity, and a new breed of technologies aimed at affecting the work itself by being user - centric, not just in design but also in application.

In an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Holland).

There are several breeds where the modern version of the breed looks very different from the traditional.

The breeds» origin is a bit murky, but the modern Afghan Hound hails from Afghanistan.

«It is now generally agreed that the ancestor of the modern dog is the wolf... [the] process of domestication where our ancestors removed the «wildness» from the wolf, involved thousands of years of selective breeding... In this process, our ancestors produced hundreds of «different looking wolves»... our ancestors made only two basic changes to the wolf.

If this seems a far cry from the dainty little glamour breed of today, it should be remembered that in those days the dogs weighed about 15 pounds, or twice the weight of the modern breed.

The modern Labrador Retriever is a large - breed dog that stands between 21 and 25 inches high and weighs anywhere from 55 to 80 pounds at maturity.

A number of modern dog breeds are believed to be descended from the Alaunt.

The first St. John's Water Dog was brought to England in 1820 where it was developed into the modern Labrador Retriever, possibly with input from various other retriever breeds.

The origins of the Chihuahua breed can be traced all the way back to ancient Mexico and it is commonly believed that the modern Chihuahua descended from an ancient companion breed, the Techichi, which was developed by the Toltec civilization before the 9th century.

Since the Labrador is descended from the St. John's Water Dog (lesser Newfoundland) as are so many of the modern retriever breeds, I wish those dogs were still around.

Hence, the physical and mental characteristics of modern - day Siberians stem back from the hundreds, if not thousands, of years of breeding that went into the development of a suitable dog for Arctic living.

This breed actually gets its name from the mountain range near its modern homeland, the Caucasus Mountains.

It is from the original game - bred fighting dogs that we get the modern day American Pit Bull Terrier.

«Modern breeding practices are affecting the behavior and mental abilities of pedigree breeds as well as their physical features,» said Kenth Svartberg, an ethologist from Stockholm University and author of the research report.

In closing, if you love the modern day American Pit Bull Terrier, than you should at least give respect to those that created the breed centuries ago, because it is from these lines that all modern day Pit Bulls are spawned.

The original Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were around and had been bred from other toy dogs and spaniels during the 16th century or so, but modern day breeders have been using other methods of breeding to bring a more pure version of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back into existence.

From conception to foaling, horse breeding today is carefully managed through modern technology.

The modern breed was developed from dogs found in the countryside around Bern, Switzerland and is only... Read more

The Boston's rise from nonexistence to AKC recognition was meteoric by modern standards, as the breed was recognized by the AKC in 1893, less than 20 years after the breed was born.

The same standard has been found in the remains of sled dogs from this region 2,000 ago and in the modern Siberian Husky breed standard.

The modern German Shepherd breed is criticized by some for straying away from Max von Stephanitz's original ideology that German Shepherds should be bred primarily as working dogs and that breeding should be strictly controlled to eliminate defects quickly.

The modern Labrador's ancestors originated on the island of Newfoundland, Canada, and emerged over time from the St. John's Water Dog, (also a founding breed of the Newfoundland dog) through breedings by early settlers in the 1600s.

From its ancestor's beginnings as a cattle driving dog and puller of carts the breed has been developed for use in a wide range of activities by modern man including service dogs, therapy animals, top - ranked obedience, tracking, and other performance dogs including use as search and rescue dogs across the country (even the World Trade Center recovery site).

Tina M. Barber, a dog breeder from New York, wanted the German Shepherd type dog to look and perform the way it did when she was young — a larger dog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog breed.

It's believed to be descended from the Roman Molossus, the same dog that is considered to be a forefather of most modern European mastiff breeds.

It's believed that this dog is the breed from which the modern day Labrador Retriever's history comes from.

Originally bred to retrieve from water, the modern Labrador Retriever has proven to be one of the most versatile breeds, excelling in hunt tests and field trials, in obedience and agility events, and also as service dogs.

Other breeds came from Arabian traders around the Horn of Africa and with Asian immigrants, particularly into the Cape Colony, and jackal coursing introduced from British India brought lurchers from England and Ireland and the borzoi or Russian wolfhound, and before the era of standardised modern breeds, several breeds may have more rarely contributed to Rhodesian Ridgeback genetics.

But supporters of the theory contend that enough of the foundational stock is ancient, including the greyhound and the Khoikhoi dog (from which the ridged back derives), that even though it was developed relatively recently and for use with modern firearms, the breed can still be considered to be of a «primitive type».

There is a controversy surrounding the breed: some claim that today's dogs are descended from the ancient lineage, while others say that the modern version is a recreation and that the original breed went extinct long ago.

The Siamese / Oriental breeds encompass a wide variety of looks; from the traditional (or «apple headed») Siamese to the modern (or «wedge headed») Siamese.