Sentences with phrase «limited gene pool»

Selection over generations for desired traits will limit that gene pool further and not all the genes retained will be for desirable.

While elimination of genetic diseases is a worthy goal, the converse is that excessive culling of animals from the gene pool may have the equally deleterious effect of limiting the gene pool in the breed.

Breeding has left many dog breeds with limited gene pools, which translates into a lack genetic diversity.

IGs have a very limited gene pool so this is very important.

Since Curls are allowed to outcross to non-pedigreed cats, the opportunity for problems caused by breeding within limited gene pools is reduced.

Anyway, although what you say is certainly interesting, they also say at the start of the article: «The English cream Golden Retriever which is really just a Golden retriever from many parts of Europe...» as well as «Once the American kennel Club set the breed standard for the American Golden, the cream color variation and some other standards found in Europe were excluded leaving Americans with a more limited gene pool.»

However, like most purebred dogs, IGs have a relatively limited gene pool, and excessive culling can reduce genetic diversity.

[citation needed] It also limits the gene pool, which may make certain undesirable characteristics become accentuated in the breed, such as a poor conformational fault or a disease.

Instead a tremendously rare dog with a very limited gene pool is now the toast of the town — a dog that will not be found in any rescue centre and a dog which, despite claims to the contrary is NOT hypo - allergenic.

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

As it is, the surviving Przewalski's horses have a limited gene pool.

The white - footed mice's success is encouraging from a conservation perspective, since the urban mice were starting with a limited gene pool — only half the genetic diversity of country mice, noted Max Lambert, an urban ecologist and doctoral candidate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was not involved in the study.

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

Larry McArthur served as President of the small club for many years but the low numbers in the U.S. prevented the breed from moving into regular competition and a gradual deterioration of quality due to the limited gene pool further decreased interest - and numbers.

How can they sell more and more Blue Nose Pitbulls if there is such a limited gene pool to begin with?

But since Yugoslavia was behind the Iron Curtain after WW II, West German breeders didn't have access to Germany's finest GSPs and they were faced with rebuilding their beloved breed from a limited gene pool.

Because of the limited gene pool, Korat breeders have had a difficult time eliminating kinked tails and / or white lockets from their breed.

Because of the limited gene pool, occasionally kittens may have zyphoid sternums (protruding sternum bone) and / or juvenile heart murmurs.

When Rome fell and trade with Britain ceased, cats on the British Isles bred within a limited gene pool, resulting in cats with unique characteristics.

Because purebred dogs have closed, limited gene pools (most breeds descend from only a few original dogs) different breeds may have a higher incidence of some inherited diseases, and nearly no incidence of others.

This will significantly reduce the number of purebreds available in California and limit the gene pool, increasing the incidence of heritable diseases and disorders.

Regardless of the kennel name on the papers, its lineage may go back to those few lines, creating a limited gene pool.

Given the limited gene pool that is available to most registered Catahoula breeders, it would be advisable for breeders to incorporate this study into their breeding program, and not remove a dog that has good traits.

The Glen of Imaal Terrier's small population size and its limited gene pool, along with the adult onset of disease — often after an animal has been bred multiple times — have resulted in widespread distribution of crd3 within the breed, and many Glens in the general population are likely to be carrying at least one copy of the disease mutation.

The problem is that so many of the dog breeds have gotten to where there is such a limited gene pool for pedigree dogs that they are becoming very inbred.

The limited gene pool has caused many breeds to have genetic health problems — because for too long, the pedigree dog people have been focusing on looks, and not the overall health, of the dogs.

It is unavoidable due to our limited gene pool.

Their new breed had the required standard of conformation but lacked the consistency that could be achieved only by careful breeding, including prudent inbreeding of the dogs in the limited gene pool.

Whether and how we limit the gene pool is a really important issue.

If this test has a large margin of error in diagnosing carriers and affecteds, won't it limit our gene pool to the point that other problems will become more of an issue?