Sentences with phrase «from small gene pool»

There is an abundance of issues that stem straight from the small gene pools that human beings have manipulated in dogs; 60 percent of golden retrievers will die of cancer before they turn eight.

Not exact matches

Gene therapy has the potential to save lives, but the pool of people who suffer from the orphan diseases, or conditions that pharmaceutical companies have historically ignored, is relatively small.

This is nature in action and a small part of the inevitable process that will remove religiousness from the gene pool.

Even if Noah impregnated all of them at once, or his sons did their respective wives, and then they all repeated the process 14 years later (give or take) when the 1st offspring became fertile, how could different races with distinct physiological adaptation arise from such a small, virtually identical gene pool 4,000 years ago?

This pattern of disease susceptibility suggests that Finns ancestral gene pool was small and was cut off early on from the rest of Europes.

We could get radiation - resistance genes, for example, from the Bdelloid rotifer, a class of small invertebrates that live in freshwater pools and survive megadoses of ionizing radiation.

L. lugubris also has a small gene pool: its population consists of clones descended from four or five interspecies couplings.

The conclusions from the seminar were (a) don't throw out the COMMD1 test and (b) as a numerically small breed we can not afford to restrict the gene pool.

Many result from small show - circuit gene pools so the health of the parents is doubly important.

(All responsible breeders carefully place their dogs in new homes, but breeders of rare breeds are even more finicky about where their pups go because they are guardians of a small gene pool and need to make sure that all breedable dogs are kept intact and that buyers understand the consequences of owning a pet that is also the repository of genes from that limited pool.)

The gradual loss of alleles from populations is known as «genetic drift», this is a random process which occurs naturally in all populations; it may not matter much in the large gene pool of a large population, but becomes increasingly serious over time in the small gene pools of smaller populations.

Pocket Beagles are either selectively bred from purebred Beagles that are exceptionally small (which is not recommended because smaller size is frequently associated with more health problems), or they are the result of mix breeding Beagles to other small breeds such as Chihuahuas or Dachshunds (which is not recommended because you are introducing unpredictable temperament and health conditions from those breeds, into the Beagle gene pool).