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INBREEDING AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN SLOVENIAN HOLSTEIN POPULATION [PDF]

Poljoprivreda, 2007
Analysis of inbreeding and inbreeding depression was done on the data of routine breeding value estimation for milk production data on Holstein population in Slovenia.
K. Potočnik, M. Štepec, J. Krsnik
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Evaluation of Optimum Genetic Contribution Theory to Control Inbreeding While Maximizing Genetic Response [PDF]

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2012
Inbreeding is the mating of relatives that produce progeny having more homozygous alleles than non-inbred animals. Inbreeding increases numbers of recessive alleles, which is often associated with decreased performance known as inbreeding depression. The
S.-H. Oh
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Cryptic female choice favours sperm from major histocompatibility complex-dissimilar males [PDF]

, 2013
Cryptic female choice may enable polyandrous females to avoid inbreeding or bias offspring variability at key loci after mating. However, the role of these genetic benefits in cryptic female choice remains poorly understood. Female red junglefowl, Gallus
Alcaide M, Bakst MR, Burnham KP, Etches RJ, Janeway CA, Klein J, Olsson M, Parker GA, Trivers RL   +8 more
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Cotton facilitates long‐distance seed dispersal by functioning as nest material for birds

Oikos, EarlyView.
Cotton (Cossypium) fibres, which grow naturally in bolls around the seeds of cotton plants, have been used for centuries to produce fabric. The presumed natural function of cotton is that these lightweight and fluffy fibres may support wind dispersal of the seeds inside.
Roos van der Meer, Lotte L. Koot, Elke Molenaar, Andries K. Janse van Vuuren, Ara Monadjem, Kat Bebbington, Sjouke A. Kingma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How relatedness between mates influences reproductive success: An experimental analysis of self‐fertilization and biparental inbreeding in a marine bryozoan

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Kin associations increase the potential for inbreeding. The potential for inbreeding does not, however, make inbreeding inevitable. Numerous factors influence whether inbreeding preference, avoidance, or tolerance evolves, and, in hermaphrodites where ...
Scott C. Burgess, Lisa Sander, Marília Bueno   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised data associated with seedbank collections, such as sampling locations, number of maternal plants and seed traits, we can attempt the estimation of genetic ...
Roberta Gargiulo, Sean Hoban, Anne M. Visscher, Pablo Gómez Barreiro, Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Kiran L. Dhanjal‐Adams, Alice R. Hudson, Charlotte E. Seal, Simon Kallow, Jan Sala, Lee Oliver, Naomi Carvey, Ted Chapman, Efisio Mattana, Clare Callow, Christopher Cockel, Michael F. Fay, Juan Viruel, Inna Birchenko, Stephanie Miles, Timothy Pearce, Paul Kersey, Elinor Breman, Kate A. Hardwick   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation and development of animal breeding in Ireland [PDF]

, 2008
End of project reportThe primary objectives of this study were: 1) to annually evaluate the pertinence of the Irish dairy cattle breeding index, the Economic Breeding Index (EBI) and where necessary modify, 2) to evaluate the potential of do-it-yourself ...
Berry, Donagh, McParland, Sinead, Shalloo, Laurence   +2 more
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Range‐wide sampling reveals cryptic lineages but largely conserved mycorrhizal associations in the Japanese fairy lantern Thismia kobensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The jewel‐like flowers of Thismia are as rare as they are beautiful, often recorded from only a single site per species. Access to 15 populations of T. kobensis has enabled an uncommon, range‐wide assessment of morphology, genetics, and fungal partners. Our analyses showed that T.
Kenji Suetsugu, Kazuma Takizawa, Kazuki Inui, Akihiro Nishimura, Shun K. Hirota   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic inbreeding load and its individual prediction for milk yield in French dairy sheep

Genetics Selection Evolution
Background The magnitude of inbreeding depression depends on the recessive burden of the individual, which can be traced back to the hidden (recessive) inbreeding load among ancestors.
Simona Antonios, Silvia T. Rodríguez-Ramilo, Andres Legarra, Jean-Michel Astruc, Luis Varona, Zulma G. Vitezica   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inbreeding depression of reproductive traits in Japanese Black cattle using genomic information [PDF]

Animal Bioscience
Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate genomic inbreeding in Japanese Black cattle and its effects on reproductive traits. Methods The study analyzed reproductive records and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from Japanese Black ...
Takayuki Ibi, Souma Kouno
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