• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • growth and yield characteristics in offspring through the phenomenon of heterosis ("hybrid vigour" or "combining ability"). Two populations of breeding...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • include open pollination and clonal propagation. An important factor is the heterosis that results from the genetic differences between the parents, which can...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    regions. Overdominance has been hypothesized as an underlying cause for heterosis (increased fitness of hybrid offspring). An example of overdominance in...
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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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  • 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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    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...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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...
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