also to gain brevity of expression I suggest … that the word 'heterosis' be adopted. Heterosis is often discussed as the opposite of inbreeding depression...
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breeding. In 1908, George Harrison Shull described heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor. Heterosis describes the tendency of the progeny of a specific...
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conducted by CIMMYT made use of a chemical hybridising agent to evaluate heterosis in hexaploid triticale hybrids. To select the most promising parents for...
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stage does not benefit from heterosis. This may be an indication that the sexual reproduction has advantages other than heterosis, such as genetic recombination...
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Complementation (genetics) (section Genetic complementation, heterosis, and the evolution of sexual reproduction)
DNA replication and repair, and how molecular machines are constructed. Heterosis is the tendency for hybrid individuals to exceed their purebred parents...
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growth and yield characteristics in offspring through the phenomenon of heterosis ("hybrid vigour" or "combining ability"). Two populations of breeding...
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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...
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heterotic. Positive heterosis produces more robust hybrids, they might be stronger or bigger; while the term negative heterosis refers to weaker or smaller...
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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...
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Flynn effect (section Heterosis)
school performance in clinical trials when compared to placebo groups. Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, associated with historical reductions of the levels...
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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...
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Yuan Longping (section Heterosis)
crossbreeding did the opposite. Those experiments proved the concept of heterosis. In the 1950s, geneticist J. C. Stephens and a few others hybridized two...
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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...
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genetic health problems associated with inbreeding (based on the theory of heterosis), and have enthusiasts and defenders who prefer them to intentionally...
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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...
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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...
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the marks (Braszewska et al. 2013). Heterosis is defined as any advantages seen in hybrids. The effects of heterosis seem to follow a rather simple epigenetic...
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Revolution. In 1908, George Harrison Shull described heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor. Heterosis describes the tendency of the progeny of a specific...
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mapping. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis, epistasis, pleiotropy and other interactions between loci and alleles...
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cross-fertilisation on progeny is also referred to as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once flowers became established in a lineage as an evolutionary adaptation...
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is reached. Heterozygote advantage is a major underlying mechanism for heterosis, or "hybrid vigor", which is the improved or increased function of any...
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uniformity, improved color, disease resistance. An important factor is the heterosis or combining ability of the parent plants. Crossing any particular pair...
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November 2, 2017. Jinks, J. L. (1983). "Biometrical Genetics of Heterosis". Heterosis. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Vol. 6. Springer...
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genetic complementation, an effect also recognized as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once outcrossing is established in a lineage of flowering plants due...
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genome of progeny. This beneficial effect is also known as hybrid vigor or heterosis. Once outcrossing is established, subsequent switching to inbreeding becomes...
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advantage of masking deleterious recessive mutations in progeny (see heterosis). Vertebrates have evolved numerous diverse mechanisms for avoiding close...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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frequency of the i t h {\displaystyle i^{th}} allele at the target locus. Heterosis Heterozygote advantage Loss of heterozygosity Nucleotide diversity measures...
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