Sentences with phrase «other modern breeds»

Genetic testing suggests that the modern dog as we know it originates with other modern breeds around the 1800's.

Genetic tests place the Chihuahua with other modern breeds originating in the 1800s.

«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.

Not exact matches

Those approaches should include modern conventional plant - breeding methods, sustainable and organic farming, and other sophisticated farming practices that do not require farmers to pay significant up - front costs.

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 breeding led to the creation of progenitors of modern laboratory mice as hybrids among M. m. domesticus, M. m. musculus and other subspecies.

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).

The unfortunate truth is most of the food produced today has had most of the health - promoting components bred out of it through hybridization, genetic manipulation and other modern industrial agricultural practices.

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.

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 exact date of its extinction is not known; it is likely that it was gradually interbred with other breeds, particularly the modern Beagle, until the genuine North Country Beagle bloodline ceased to exist.

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.

The ancient Pharaoh Hound and other ancient breeds trace their ancestry well before modern record keeping and breed registries.

One of the other issues with the merle pattern is whether it is a natural genetic mutation in the breed or whether it has appeared in Chihuahuas due to modern — secretive — crossbreeding with other breeds.

The original Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were around and had been bred from other toy dogs and spaniels during the 16th century or so, but modern day breeders have been using other methods of breeding to bring a more pure version of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back into existence.

Though she did not make it to the US, her cats reached the shore of Wiscasset in Maine, where they bred with other shorthaired local breeds thus giving an offspring of modern - known Maine Coons.

[3] Most modern dog breeds are the products of the controlled breeding practices of the Victorian era (1830 - 1900), [4][5] and the accurate documenting of pedigrees with the establishment of the English Kennel Club in 1873 in imitation of other stud book registries for cattle and horses.

The other reason why the breed became extinct is that it probably didn't have the conformation to really compete with the modern retrievers.

From its ancestor's beginnings as a cattle driving dog and puller of carts the breed has been developed for use in a wide range of activities by modern man including service dogs, therapy animals, top - ranked obedience, tracking, and other performance dogs including use as search and rescue dogs across the country (even the World Trade Center recovery site).

This breed is also thought to be the ancestor of many of the other modern spaniels, and as long as they have plenty of exercise, they are wonderful pets.

Other breeds came from Arabian traders around the Horn of Africa and with Asian immigrants, particularly into the Cape Colony, and jackal coursing introduced from British India brought lurchers from England and Ireland and the borzoi or Russian wolfhound, and before the era of standardised modern breeds, several breeds may have more rarely contributed to Rhodesian Ridgeback genetics.

This breeder is exposed to other points of view, learns more about the breed and modern breeding practices, and is kept up - to - date on AKC rules and regulations.

There is a controversy surrounding the breed: some claim that today's dogs are descended from the ancient lineage, while others say that the modern version is a recreation and that the original breed went extinct long ago.

«Modern» breeds have been so mixed that their deep genetic history is obscured, but the Shiba — along with 12 other breeds, including the Basenji, Shar - pei, Saluki, Akita, Finnish Spitz, and Eurasier — has been recognized as one of 13 basal or root breeds, meaning that their DNA is less mixed.

First used as a water - dog, Lagottos are in fact believed to be part of the foundation stock that all other modern water dog breeds are descended from.

This breeder is exposed to other points of view, learns more about the breed and modern breeding practices, and is kept up to date on AKC Rules and Regulations.

Virtually all of modern pure - breeds can trace their origins to village - type dogs that proliferated during the Neolithic era in the Middle East and SE Asia and populated other regions of the world [22, 26].

In dogs, the term breed is used two ways: loosely, to refer to dog types or landraces of dog (also called natural breeds or ancient breeds); or more precisely, to refer to modern breeds of dog, which are documented so as to be known to be descended from specific ancestors, that closely resemble others of their breed in appearance, movement, way of working and other characters; and that reproduce with offspring closely resembling each other and their parents.

THE MODERN ERA Except in the United States and Canada, to this day the breed is still known in all other nations as the King Charles Spaniel and must not be confused with its cousin, the relatively modern, more recently re-developed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, recognized by the AKC inMODERN ERA Except in the United States and Canada, to this day the breed is still known in all other nations as the King Charles Spaniel and must not be confused with its cousin, the relatively modern, more recently re-developed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, recognized by the AKC inmodern, more recently re-developed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, recognized by the AKC in 1995.

The breeder is exposed to other points of view, learns more about their breed, general dog care, modern breeding practices and is kept up to date.

Its fur type is apparently more primitive than that of other breeds and, unlike more modern cats, it has a tendency to face foes rather than flee!