Sentences with phrase «gene pool»

In general, pedigree breeds use a much smaller gene pool for breeding than domestic cats and therefore have a higher risk of developing inherited disorders.

Like other remote islands, a limited gene pool has led to a greater prevalence of certain diseases.

When revived and breeding, they will enrich the ferret gene pool by increasing the number of founders of the current population from 7 to 9.

Government officials come from the same gene pool as every other human and may believe that a person or a company has engaged in intentional wrongdoing.

He's trying to expand the cultivated peanut's gene pool with genes from its wild cousins.

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 you need to breed two dogs from the same gene pool in order to create a purebred, you're severely limiting the genetic diversity.

The large gene pool available in establishing this breed and careful, informed breeding practices have helped insure this.

As a result, dogs from the «pet» population may actually be the salvation of the breed gene pool.

One effort — the largest to date to systematically collect wild gene pools — is already underway in 17 countries.

Because pure bred dogs can suffer from inherited diseases, mixing breeds can lead to a more diversified gene pool and more robust health.

More breeds will experience declining gene pool size and genetic diversity affecting breed health.

Nowadays, this breed remains quite rare; indeed, despite the fact that there are several breeders, the overall gene pool remains still quite small.

A wide gene pool helps to make this breed very sturdy and healthy.

The loss of genetic diversity and extreme changes in various regions of the genome will make it very difficult to improve breed health from within the existing gene pool.

, but the chances are definitely lower because of the mixed gene pool.

Your cat is most likely a random - bred cat who exhibits a combination of different gene pools.

5 One leading hypothesis suggests that sex won out over DIY as a defense against parasites, which would be less harmful in a varied gene pool.

Mix - breeds, as a class, have more inherited diseases than any single pure breed because of their broader gene pool.

His family, too: members of his own gene pool think breastfeeding in public is gross.

This hypothesis suggests that high local genetic diversity can exist by drawing variation from a common and relatively limited global gene pool.

They're trying to collect all of the DNA from every ecosystem against that evil day when we lose animals that we need to have or to enrich gene pools.

The answer is simple: copies alone are not what matters, it is the survival of that gene within a particular gene pool that matters.

When the four major factors and seven elements are combined they show how the direction of a breed's size, show entries and gene pool diversity can be influenced.

Not surprisingly, given the richness of its intellectual gene pool, the field is constantly evolving.

As we continue to unravel the genomes of more and more organisms, the contributions from this dynamic and ancient gene pool should become apparent.

Unless steps are taken to protect the cocoa gene pool, supplies could one day dry up.

Did feral dogs give rise to all the dog species in the world, or did all those dogs just contribute their DNA to the feral gene pool?

This is considered to be a rather small gene pool upon which to establish a breed.

The breeders of these losing dogs being influenced by such decisions will stop breeding these dogs and take a specific direction which will shrink the size of the breed's gene pool even more.

If one sees a similar disease in one of the breeds which originally contributed to the TFT gene pool it would be interesting to determine whether it is the same mutation causing it.

Because when they're considered different breeds, they can't be bred together, which means each «breed» has its own small gene pool instead of one large one.

What has it got to do with an adequate gene pool?

A cover letter can be the most exciting piece of writing for a hiring manager whose life mission is to create a good gene pool of employees for his company.

Making changes to the DNA in human embryos could accidentally introduce an error into the human gene pool, inadvertently creating a new disease that would be passed down for generations, critics say.

But I suspect it has something to do with a limited gene pool.

In breeds with small gene pools, as is the case with many pure breeds, elimination of identified carriers may not be the best strategy, as genetic diversity would become dangerously compromised.

The findings, he and others say, suggest that wildlife managers should focus scarce resources on those threatened populations with larger gene pools within a species.

Maybe because they are from the same gene pool.

Each table and discussion explains the importance of how four factors and seven elements influence in some way a breed's gene pool size, registrations and show entries.

Due to random mutation or the wide gene pool, cats of any color can be born deaf (probably less than 1 %)- including orange - eyed whites.