Sentences with phrase «hybrid offspring»

These monkeys have successfully been producing hybrid offspring for hundreds maybe even thousands of years.

Another factor shown to be determining the number of hybrids is that hybrid offspring do not survive to adulthood as well as do the other two species.

Specifically, they knew two closely related wasp species, Nasonia giraulti and Nasonia longicornis, could produce healthy hybrid offspring and that the two had a similar array of gut bacteria.

In addition to Sequoia, the team also sequenced a barred owl individual from the eastern United States as a baseline of comparison for better evaluating the frequency of interbreeding and tracking hybrid offspring in the wild.

Given the viable hybrid offspring that the most diverse members of our species have produced as a result of cultural conjoinings through both ancient migrations and modern travel, one has to suspect that close encounters of the corporeal kind occurred not infrequently in those dark and lonely cave nights over the course of those long - gone millennia.

Now, mating Bogota females and USA males produces infertile male hybrid offspring.

Diseases, invasive species, disruption of reproductive cycles, and less fit hybrid offspring are just some of the risks that parrots and other species face when they are released in unfamiliar places and begin to reproduce with individuals from different populations.

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

Scientists have noticed barred and spotted owls interbreeding and hatching hybrid offspring since the late 1980s.

Yet different experiments, breeding GM Atlantic salmon with wild brown trout, suggest that in some contexts hybrid offspring can outcompete both their GM and wild parents, scientists reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in 2013.

The researchers noticed in 2008 that some of the C. becki shells were more saddle shaped than domed shaped, and found that these were hybrid offspring from matings between the two species.

Case in the Twilight film franchise's «Breaking Dawn Part Two» wherein Bella (Kristen Stewart) sees her unintentionally creepy CGI / robotic hybrid offspring Renesmee.

Despite being different species, they can interbreed and create hybrid offspring.

This was the first effort to use hybrid offspring to create a breed of domestic cat with the loving nature of the best fireside tabby and the striking look of Leopards, Ocelots and Jaguars.

Shiny metal hybrid offspring, Tush Hogs, were left alone in the wilderness without curators and conservators to care for them.

Bordenstein's team is now trying to figure out exactly how microbes can turn one host species into two by destroying their ability to produce healthy hybrid offspring.

Hybrid offspring with red in the black vertical box had DNA from one strain, called PWK / PhJ, and their sperm had faster back and forth motion than mice with DNA from other strains.

After finding that two closely related species, the desert and Bryant's woodrats, could interbreed and produce hybrid offspring, scientists set out to determine why only 14 percent of the population in a «contact zone» had genetic signatures from both species.

To test their idea, they raised the hybrid offspring of N. vitripennis and each of the other wasp species in a germ - free environment, eliminating any signs of gut bacteria that might be toxic to the wasps.

But when either wasp tried to mate with the related Nasonia vitripennis, which has different gut microbes, those hybrid offspring died.

Although in many species of birds the resulting chicks would be sterile, the hybrid offspring of Galápagos finches can mate with an individual from either of the two parental species.

Next, they created a new batch of hybrid offspring and reared them in germ - free environments — effectively removing their microbiomes.

Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can even backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of mixed - species birds forms in the area and creates what's known as a «hybrid zone.»

The findings may also help researchers solve the mystery of hybrid vigor, the as - yet unsolved puzzle as to why a hybrid offspring proves to be a better grower than what would be expected from the sum of its parents» genetic assets.

They were astounded to find that not only did a separate species appear between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, but that it was the hybrid offspring of the steppe bison — whose descendants include today's American bison — and another extinct cowlike mammal called the aurochs.

«We were surprised to find that during embryonic development, the proteome of the hybrid offspring has more complexity and more proteins than what would be found in both parent species combined,» says Casimir Bamberger, PhD, a TSRI research associate and the study's first author.

Now, a team from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has revealed that by crossing two species of flies, they can use what they learn from the proteome of the hybrid offspring to find new clues about how proteins interact with each other — and under which circumstances additional proteins are tolerated.

Reinforcement can occur when two species living in the same environment mate and produce inferior, hybrid offspring.

«To our knowledge, this is the first report of the rediscovery of a species by way of tracking the genetic footprints left in the genomes of its hybrid offspring,» study researcher Ryan Garrick, who performed the work at Yale University, but is now assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, said in a statement.

Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of mixed - species birds forms in the area and creates what's known as a «hybrid zone.»

Normally, when members of two related species of parasitic wasps in the genus Nasonia, N. giraulti and N. longicornis, mate with their more distant relative N. vitripennis, the hybrid offspring die.

But when Bordenstein and Brucker treated the wasps with antibiotics, eliminating the millions of microbes that lived on their bodies, they found that many of the hybrid offspring unexpectedly could survive and thrive.

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First - generation (F1) Goldendoodles are the hybrid offspring of a Golden Retriever bred to a Standard Poodle.

Though health problems known to certain breeds can often bypass the hybrid offspring, it is important to do your homework to better understand your new pet's potential medical issues.

Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement, is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring.