Sentences with phrase «modern breeds in»

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In our modern age, this breeds a world where busy work reigns supreme and the appearance of working equals success.

Being bred for speed and not necessarily for intelligence, furthermore, the comprehension of the modern race horse of his role in society is sometimes rather limited.

After a few attempts of releasing these captive - breed young falcons (including a release at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln), the first modern falcon nest in Massachusetts was deemed successful in 1987.

In fact, most modern breeds are the result of humans breeding cats for their favorite hair patterns.

But more than 220 years ago, this same breed of mosquito was spreading a different and deadly epidemic right here in Philadelphia and just like Zika, this epidemic is seeing a modern resurgence, with Brazil at its epicenter.

«The science here is still in its infancy,» says Weeks, who compares today's algae specialists to the ancient Mesoamericans who domesticated teosinte, the slender, meager grain that was bred into modern corn after some 8,000 years of cultivation.

Even modern dogs have been transformed dramatically in just 200 to 300 years of breeding (SN Online: 4/26/17; SN: 1/31/09, p. 26).

The new study's lead author, Barbara Wallner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, paired these old, yet meticulously kept data with modern DNA sequencing techniques to investigate the origins of today's horse breeds.

Thanks to the precise testing of Pm3 alleles, the best variations and combinations are identified and can then be used directly in traditional breeding by crossbreeding them into modern wheat varieties.

The genes of 50 top bulls have been sequenced in an effort to understand how genes from temperate cattle have influenced important production traits in the modern Brahman breed.

For example, we can observe that when males are significantly bigger than females in modern primates, males are likely to live in groups with breeding access to several females.

«Apart from stallion lines in Northern European breeds, all stallion lines detected in other modern breeds derive from more recently introduced Oriental ancestors,» says Barbara Wallner at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Apart from a few private Northern European haplotypes, all modern horse breeds included in the study clustered into a roughly 700 - year - old haplogroup, transmitted to Europe by the import of Oriental stallions, they report.

Take the wild and distant relatives of bread wheat, transfer any agronomically important traits you can find into modern varieties of wheat and distribute the newly created germplasm worldwide for exploitation in international breeding programmes and scientific research.

Features of the sheep's coat and the rise of textile crafts in teracted to motivate the thousands of years of selective breeding that led to modern fleece types

Modern breeding has resuscitated grocery store tomatoes with an influx of wild genes; in the past 50 years, researchers have bred back some 40 disease - resistance genes into commercial crops.

Village dogs therefore carry a more authentic genetic signature of original dog populations than the modern - day breeds created in the past 200 years, mainly in Europe.

Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world.

«In all the research on dogs, the question comes up over and over how modern breeds are related to one another genetically,» said Ostrander, whose research has concentrated on using the power of genetics to understand canine diseases.

The researchers said their analysis indicated that the modern representatives of these breeds were recreated in more recent times from combinations of other breeds.

This methodology contrasts with scans for outlier genomic regions among modern breeds (35), which can, at best, identify genes that are specific to breeds, in the absence of knowledge of the predomesticated genetic background and sources of variation.

A team of researchers from across Europe has found that human breeding practices, particularly during the Iron Age, are likely the cause of a lack of variability in paternally inherited DNA in modern horses.

The modern breed was developed by Professor Hanset in the 50s, who was working at a center for artificial insemination in Liege province.

On top of that, scientific studies have not found significant differences in the nutrient content of bred made using modern production methods, compared to more traditional ones.

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

Some modern strains of bacteria used in dairy products have been custom bred to optimize the fermenting of the dairy products — in terms of speed and taste, for example, not to survive stomach acid.

In their open - to - the - public office - slash - «lab,» this San Francisco born - and - bred fashion line turns out modern cuts on classics that will stand the test of time.

Technology advancement in the modern day world has created a conducive breeding ground for communication among people.

We know we are in the wrong and that God's teaching tells us to be pure and wait A purebred dog is a dog of a modern breed of dog, with written documentation showing the individual purebred dog's descent from its breeds» foundation

Unlike most other modern sex comedies, this one plays more toward older couples than it does to young men, which makes it a bit of a rare breed in this era of crass and sophomoric gags.

In what became an unfortunate trend that continues to this day, the modern breed of animated features relies a bit too much on crude gags and up - to - the - minute pop - culture references rather than on a magical sense of eternal appeal — Shrek falls into that camp, and even a mere decade - and - a-half later, much of it feels dated.

Turns out former President Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of the modern Singapore state, believed that well - educated people should only breed with each other to ensure the country would, as he put it, have enough «bright people to support dumb people in the next generation.»

The rationale for learning technology has shifted too, from simply a system of record (the primary purpose of the traditional LMS), towards engagement (the purpose of the modern LMS), towards systems of productivity, and a new breed of technologies aimed at affecting the work itself by being user - centric, not just in design but also in application.

This modern Zagato actually has very little to do with Italy as it was designed in the slightly less flamboyant surroundings of Gaydon by Aston's Sheffield - bred director of design, Marek Reichman.

The successor to the five - cylinder, 200PS - plus turbo charged petrol engine that delivered premier league power with a famously charismatic engine note in the rally - bred quattro road cars of the Eighties blends that same unmistakeable acoustic character with performance and economy that epitomises the modern day Audi RS.

In an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with HollandIn an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Hollandin the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Holland).

The breed, originally known as the Scotch Terrier, acquired its modern name in 1870 after Angus Sutherland (a reporter for The Field magazine) wrote that «they ought no longer be called Scotch Terriers, but Yorkshire Terriers for having been so improved there.»

The modern English Bulldog breed was initially bred by a man named Bill George in the mid 1800s.

Perhaps we're entering in these modern years a new age where only judges, handlers and dog show participants really care about these strict guidelines, known as official breed standards.

Early in the breeding program that developed golden retrievers were dogs that were described as red by breeders, though their color would be called golden by modern dog experts.

Known as the «King Charles Spaniel» or «Charlies» in Britain, they were bred to the oriental short - nosed breeds in the 1800s to create the modern day King Charles Spaniel which are only called English Toy Spaniels in North America today (known as King Charles Spaniel abroad).

«It is now generally agreed that the ancestor of the modern dog is the wolf... [the] process of domestication where our ancestors removed the «wildness» from the wolf, involved thousands of years of selective breeding... In this process, our ancestors produced hundreds of «different looking wolves»... our ancestors made only two basic changes to the wolf.

If this seems a far cry from the dainty little glamour breed of today, it should be remembered that in those days the dogs weighed about 15 pounds, or twice the weight of the modern breed.

The first St. John's Water Dog was brought to England in 1820 where it was developed into the modern Labrador Retriever, possibly with input from various other retriever breeds.

Exactly when the breed was developed is not clear but we know that ancestors of the modern breed existed in the 14th century.

There is much in dog breeding that remains based on «old wives» tales» simply because breeders don't realize that modern knowledge is available.

Since the early days, the Welsh Terrier, or simply Welshie, has not changed much if at all — the modern breed closely resembles dogs depicted in early paintings and prints.

They were mainly crossed with Rough Collies and Border Collies during the 19th and 20th centuries, which is why the three modern breeds share so much in common today.

Wiston Cap is another associated breed which is believed to have influenced the Border Collie, and the Collie breed, with his bloodline appearing in most bloodlines of the modern day Collie.

The modern Maltese came into development during the 17th and 18th centuries when breeders decided to improve the breed by breeding it down in size.