Sentences with phrase «of breed traits»

Selecting the right personality and ensuring that you know all of the breed traits and possible genetic faults is important.

None of these breed traits are healthy and many working dogs today wouldn't be able to do the job they were originally bred for with their current conformation / structure.

Hybrids are sometimes crossed with hybrids, possibly resulting in a different combination of breed traits.

Having had two Rottweilers before, we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, jumping up, etc..

Having had 2 Beagles before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with her pulling on the lead, running off, scavenging food, etc..

Having had 2 Chihuahuas before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, chewing things she shouldn't etc..

Having had 2 Yorkshire Terriers before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, chewing things she shouldn't etc..

Having had two Cocker Spaniels before, we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, jumping up, etc..

Having had 2 Mini Schnauzers before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with her pulling on the lead, running off, scavenging food, etc..

Having had 2 English Bulldogs before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, chewing things she shouldn't etc..

Having had 2 Labrador Retrievers before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, jumping up etc..

Having had 2 Great Danes before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, chewing things she shouldn't etc..

Having had 2 Golden Retrievers before we assumed that this was part of their breed trait and just lived with their pulling on leads, running off, jumping up etc..

Not exact matches

The breed of the entrepreneur personality has many unique traits that don't always fit into the same box that some may consider the «norm» in a relationship.

Humans have been breeding plants to have desirable traits for thousands of years.

Clearly, selective breeding can cause dramatic changes in a creature like a dog, so what does it matter whether it's humans doing the selecting of traits, or nature preferring certain traits based on suitability to survive?

Per your assertions, humans in the cradle of humanity have been affected by Malaria for millions of years yet somehow, this negative trait is never bred out of the human population.

Individual bacteria don't, but antibiotics sometimes only kill 99 % of the bacteria, leaving a few individuals to breed and pass on the trait that allowed them to survive the antibiotic to their offspring.

Renaud, E.N.C; Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.; Jiggins, J.; Maliepaard, C.; Paulo, J.; Juvik, J.A. and Myers, J.R. (2010) Breeding for specific bioregions: a genotype by environment study of horticultural and nutritional traits integrating breeder and farmer priorities for organic broccoli cultivar improvement.

«The phenotypic and genomic data collected as part of the MDC project will improve the accuracy of estimated breeding values (EBVs) describing economically important reproduction traits in animals, related to the Kaiuroo herd, throughout the Brahman breed.»

IRRI's support for partners includes initial breeding of the Golden Rice trait into selected varieties, which involves laboratory work, greenhouse tests, and some preliminary field evaluation.

This dataset contains millions of genomic sequences from a diverse set of rice varieties that, when combined with phenotyping observations, gene expression, and other information, provides an important step in establishing gene - trait associations, building predictive models, and applying these models to breeding.

Data access and analysis tools are being made available for the 3K RGP dataset through the International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC), which promotes collaboration in bioinformatics analysis of rice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breeding.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Unlike conventional breeding, it can entirely prevent the inclusion of unwanted genes and associated traits.

Charlie has the best traits of both breeds.

I do maintain that almost every Doberman breeder whom I have met, and I have met many of them from coast to coast, is a pretty dedicated person who has striven through careful breeding to eliminate the less desirable traits which were inherent in the German dogs of 20 years or so ago.

Evolution is in essence weeding out less adaptive traits via death (or lack of breeding).

How many of those animals that you speak of have been so overbred (or bred to have ridiculous traits in the case of cats and dogs) that they physically can not give birth naturally without assistance?

Together they're «back - breeding» modern cattle to take on aurochs - like traits — like menacing horns and stripes along their backs — and then introducing herds of these doppelganger herbivores into landscapes where aurochs once roamed.

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.

And since the goal is to breed animals for their ability to thrive in the wild, selection of aurochs - like traits (or phenotypes) has been their initial focus.

The dogs came from a variety of breeds which have been bred over thousands of years to have — among other traits — snouts of various lengths.

Even dogs of similar appearance and the same breed often have diverse behavioral traits in the same way that human siblings often have very different personalities,» she said.

That study avoided the «p» word, charting the emergence of key «temperamental traits» in 73 lab - bred California octopuses.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

Digital plants like these are part of a new movement in agricultural science called «in silico,» where researchers design highly accurate, computer - simulated crops to help speed up selective breeding, in which plants are chosen and replanted to amplify their desirable traits.

«By crossing two different varieties of pea, you may be able to breed offspring with traits beyond those of either parent,» says Bueckert.

«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.»

Singh's collaborator, Randall Nelson, the research leader of the ARS soybean / maize research unit, plants seeds from Singh's most promising experiments, grows the plants and distributes their seeds to other scientists, who screen them for desirable traits and conduct their own breeding experiments.

Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life - history traits such as survival, chick mass and breeding success and population dynamics.

«We are unpacking the entire DNA sequences of 50 influential animals then honing in on the genes associated with specific traits in order to capture the best genetics in the Brahman breed,» he said.

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.

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.

They also share the behavioral traits of domesticated animals, such as reduced aggression, despite never having undergone selective breeding.

If you see only the results of your own breeding program — never any fat, happy pigs with good conformation — it's easy to lose sight of how much their behavior has changed, especially if you're focusing exclusively on developing physical traits.

«Working with GM tomatoes that are different to normal fruit only by the addition of a specific compound, allows us to pinpoint exactly how to breed in valuable traits,» said Professor Cathie Martin from the John Innes Centre.

«The sequence will make it possible to develop new, more effective selective breeding tools that will make us even better at choosing parent fish with desired traits for the next generation of salmon,» says Mr Arnesen.

First observed by Darwin but best chronicled in a 20th - century Soviet attempt to breed tame foxes, domestication syndrome covers a range of unintended physical traits that emerge as a wild species is selectively bred for more docile behavior.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.