Sentences with phrase «wild relatives such»
However, there has been a lot of research done on this subject and we do know quite a bit about the diets of the dog's closest wild relatives such as the wolf, coyote, and fox.
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Wild relatives of crops could be better suited to harsher climes, but efforts to collect and breed such crops are just beginning.
From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.
In other organisms, such an understanding is usually achieved by comparing the genomes of domesticated species and their wild relatives (4 ⇓ — 6), but this approach is not directly applicable to horses.
As evacuees have streamed into temporary shelters or moved in with relatives, animals — including wild monkeys as well as dogs and farm animals such as pigs, chickens and cows — have been left in the danger zone close to the volcano that is most at risk of cascading ash, rocks and hot gas.