also to gain brevity of expression I suggest … that the word 'heterosis' be adopted. Heterosis is often discussed as the opposite of inbreeding depression...

conducted by CIMMYT made use of a chemical hybridising agent to evaluate heterosis in hexaploid triticale hybrids. To select the most promising parents for...

stage does not benefit from heterosis. This may be an indication that the sexual reproduction has advantages other than heterosis, such as genetic recombination...

DNA replication and repair, and how molecular machines are constructed. Heterosis is the tendency for hybrid individuals to exceed their purebred parents...

the American Philosophical Society. He also described heterosis in maize in 1908 (the term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914) and made a number of other...

heterotic. Positive heterosis produces more robust hybrids, they might be stronger or bigger; while the term negative heterosis refers to weaker or smaller...

growth and yield characteristics in offspring through the phenomenon of heterosis ("hybrid vigour" or "combining ability"). Two populations of breeding...

school performance in clinical trials when compared to placebo groups. Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, associated with historical reductions of the levels...

donkey) out of a mare. Like the mule, the hinny displays hybrid vigour (heterosis).: 36  In general terms, in both these hybrids the foreparts and head...

genetic health problems associated with inbreeding (based on the theory of heterosis), and have enthusiasts and defenders who prefer them to intentionally...

is usually one or more of the following reasons: to breed animals with heterosis, commonly known as "hybrid vigor", to create animals with more predictable...

crossbreeding did the opposite. Those experiments proved the concept of heterosis. In the 1950s, geneticist J. C. Stephens and a few others hybridized two...

November 2, 2017. Jinks, J. L. (1983). "Biometrical Genetics of Heterosis". Heterosis. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Vol. 6. Springer...

has become very popular among herd managers using the breed in their heterosis programs for hybrid vigor. These cattle are a versatile breed and adapt...

still breed ligers for profit. Tigon Panthera hybrid Felid hybrid Leopon Heterosis "Liger cubs nursed by dog in China's Xixiakou Zoo". BBC News Asia-Pacific...

of the genetic basis of heterosis in rice. This was a unique discovery because it had been previously thought that heterosis was not possible for self-pollinating...

mapping. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis, epistasis, pleiotropy and other interactions between loci and alleles...

frequency of the i t h {\displaystyle i^{th}} allele at the target locus. Heterosis Heterozygote advantage Loss of heterozygosity Nucleotide diversity measures...

include open pollination and clonal propagation. An important factor is the heterosis that results from the genetic differences between the parents, which can...

cross-fertilisation on progeny is also referred to as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once flowers became established in a lineage as an evolutionary adaptation...

regions. Overdominance has been hypothesized as an underlying cause for heterosis (increased fitness of hybrid offspring). An example of overdominance in...

hybrids of laying or dual-purpose breeds infused with extra vigor via heterosis, sex-links can be extremely good egg-layers which often produce 300 eggs...

is reached. Heterozygote advantage is a major underlying mechanism for heterosis, or "hybrid vigor", which is the improved or increased function of any...

ISBN 0-313-33545-1. Davids, A. H. (2011). Estimation of genetic distances and heterosis in three ostrich (Struthio camelus) breeds for the improvement of productivity...

are sterile. As they are a product of the hybrid genetic phenomenon of heterosis (hybrid vigor), they are larger and stronger than yak or cattle from the...

genome of progeny. This beneficial effect is also known as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once outcrossing is established, subsequent switching to inbreeding becomes...

breeding. In 1908, George Harrison Shull described heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor. Heterosis describes the tendency of the progeny of a specific...

production of Italy during the so-called "Battle for Grain" (1925–1940). Heterosis was explained by George Harrison Shull. It describes the tendency of the...

the exact involvement of the marks. Heterosis is defined as any advantages seen in hybrids. The effects of heterosis seem to follow a rather simple epigenetic...

genetic complementation, an effect also recognized as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once outcrossing is established in a lineage of flowering plants due...