Sentences with phrase «genetic breed traits»

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With a simple cheek swab test, find out about your dog's breed composition, unique personality traits, and genetic health concerns.

Van Eenennaam explained that genetic engineering is a breeding tool that applies useful traits to many purposes, such as virus, drought and weed resistance.

The genetic traits of those lost breeds may turn out to be important, especially as animals spread across the continent and contend with different climates.

«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»

Mark Howden, head of agricultural climate adaptation projects at CSIRO in Canberra, oversees projects to develop new farming systems that reduce water seepage and new crops bred with genetic traits suited to hotter, drier conditions and elevated carbon dioxide.

That human selection of favorable traits continues, both through traditional crop breeding and through the more targeted use of genetic engineering.

Among its recommendations: encourage local farmers to maintain local types of livestock; share breeds across borders (particularly when breeds are likely to be suited to specific regions due to certain adaptive traits, such as a need for less water); and establish a gene bank — similar to the regional seed banks that preserve crop diversity — to maintain this genetic heritage.

Raised for dozens of generations in the lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related behaviors.

Co-author Heidi Parker, a geneticist at NHGRI, says that because humans initially bred dogs for specific traits — say, smaller body size or calm temperament — selection created a population «bottleneck» that narrowed the genetic variation in offspring, leaving them with just a few specific clusters of variable genetic regions.

In a series of publications today in the British scientific journal Nature, international teams of researchers published a nearly complete sequence of the genetic instructions of «Black 6,» the most common breed of laboratory mouse, and matched its traits with the recently decoded human genome.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of the crop in order to develop new varieties with desirable characters (traits)-- higher yield, resistance to diseases, better nutrition (higher micronutrient content).

The alternative model is that mutations of large phenotypic effect underlie most of these traits in dogs and that the same variants have been transferred to a wide diversity of dog breeds leading to phenotypic diversity from a narrow genetic base [5], [8], [12].

Coupled with the dog domestication bottleneck, this likely simplified the genetic architecture of quantitative traits, including complex disease phenotypes that are not fixed within breeds and were not the subject of selection for novelty.

These animals have been selectively bred over time to study the genetic traits of animals with the obese or lean phenotype.

Breeding centers may sequence tens of thousands of varieties of a single crop to create a catalogue of millions of genetic markers for different traits like disease - resistance or heat tolerance.

These resources comprise a «rice diversity research platform» that is widely used the international rice research community to understand the genetic basis of complex traits, to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in key forms of stress tolerance, and to efficiently utilize natural variation to breed highly productive rice varieties for the future that are more nutritious, resource - use efficient, and stress tolerant than those we currently grow.

Well, new research suggests that the trait is actually the result of a genetic variation that's particularly common in the breed.

«We're combining genetics and breeding, so having a draft of the genome will help us find genetic markers for desirable traits in potatoes, which will make breeding more precise.»

«Quality» here has nothing to do with show quality but with understanding the genetic health traits that exist in many purebred dogs and then trying to breed animals that do not perpetuate these negative characteristics.

Thanks to the DNA test, we were able to learn more about Sally's genetic makeup as well as the different traits that each breed shows.

Like DNA My Dog, PetConfirm gives you a breed percentage report, a custom breed analysis certificate and an outline of the generic health concerns and personality traits for every breed found in your dog's genetic profile.

Embark DNA is a comprehensive dog DNA test that screens for breed identification, traits, ancestry and genetic disease risk (for 160 known canine genetic health problems).

Simply put, different dog breeds have different genetic traits that make them more prone to certain diseases.

The breeder that undertakes this type of breeding must be prepared for some undesirable traits and malformations due to genetic influences.

Because dog breeding is mainly assortative breeding, without the sorting of individuals by trait, a breed could not be established, nor could poor genetic material be removed.

The reason is simple, to reach such an extreme physique, the breeder must keep on breeding dogs belonging to the same genetic pool so these traits and characteristics become «fixed».

Breed specific behavioural traits such as hunting, herding and calmness / aggression are, however, evidence of a large genetic component and specific behaviours show high heritabilities [4 - 8].

Imagine how much more swiftly these genetic traits are lost when someone deliberately crosses a Shih Tzu with another breed, be it Pekingese, Poodle, or Yorkshire Terrier.

Unless the genetic marker for such a trait is extinguished in all breeds of dogs, then there is a chance that we can eliminate the chewing behavior of dogs.

Because the gene mutation does not always occur in bulldogs and black Russian terriers, breeders can simply use genetic selection to eliminate the unhealthy trait from those breeds.

She noted that those «backcrossed» dogs, which have been registered as Dalmatians with the United Kennel Club in the United States, offer a valuable resource for correcting the genetic defect that results in the elevated uric acid trait in the Dalmatian breed.

«A lack of genetic diversity is bad for the dogs because it not only concentrates unhealthy traits, but also makes it increasingly more difficult to make further changes in a breed or to correct health problems that may have arisen over decades,» says Pedersen.

Rather ingenious, this leap of intellectual understanding, for it required astute observations about similarities in genetic off spring and the identification of desirable traits and the leap of logic to conclude that breeding certain dogs together would in fact have a beneficial outcome.

Understanding his personality traits will help you gauge what other breeds may be part of his genetic makeup.

Each pamphlet contains breed personalty traits, genetic health information and at home care tips.

Bad breeding practices may or may not pass on a genetic tendency towards aggression, but many irresponsible breeders looking to produce «tough» dogs will specifically breed for aggressive traits.

It is a well - documented genetic trait and animals with this condition should not be bred.

Shelties, like other purebreds, have certain behavioral and genetic traits that can present challenges to those unfamiliar with the breed.

To accomplish this Bell says that breeds with small populations (LE list) need a mentoring program for their puppy buyers because healthy gene pools require genetic diversity and the careful selection of sires and dams in order to produce the desired traits and avoid the deleterious mutations that accompany unwanted traits and diseases.

It must be remembered that in order for a genetic disease or a recessive trait to exist in a breed there must be three kinds of dogs.

With genetic testing at each subsequent generation, and with a goal of breeding normal by carrier or normal by affected, the frequency of disease will drop and frequency of normals will increase without loss of other desirable traits valued in collies.

This breed, developed in the 1980s by a music teacher from Louisiana, is defined by its extremely short legs, a trait owing to a genetic mutation.

To find out out your dog's genetic age, take an Embark dog DNA test while discovering important breed, health, and trait information along the way.

Basically, the creation of distinct dog breeds was a form of genetic manipulation in order to produce a dog with a certain set of traits such as temperament, appearance, and more.

As long as the stock of your breeding does not carry genetic traits that are recessive such that they produce themselves in increasing numbers by breeding two carriers, line - breeding is appropriate to concentrate on the positive traits that particular dogs may carry and bring them forward into successive generations.

He should be selecting breed pairs based on genetics, meaning that the breeder looks for dogs who carry certain genetic traits and mates them with dogs who are most likely to replicate the desired traits or to eliminate problematic traits.

Testing for this genetic condition has been helpful in reducing the number of Greyhounds affected by neuropathy, as Greyhounds that carry these genetic traits should not be used in any dog breeding program.

Reduce the risk of genetic diseases linked to specific pure breeds by avoiding undesirable recessive traits

In considering the genetic bases for epilepsy in various dog breeds, including Irish wolfhounds it is important to consider that most forms of idiopathic generalized epilepsy in humans are inherited as complex genetic traits 36.

Many dog breeds have been fixed for a certain coat type while some breeds still possess genetic variation for this trait and produce non-uniform progeny.