thereby increasing genetic diversity. Outcrossing can be a useful technique in animal breeding. The outcrossing breeder intends to remove the traits by...

in the Cincinnati Zoo, was also outcrossed and sired at least two litters of orange cubs at Pretoria Zoo. Outcrossing is not necessarily done with the...

mechanisms for avoiding close inbreeding and promoting outcrossing (see inbreeding avoidance). Outcrossing as a way of avoiding inbreeding depression has been...

of outcrossing appears to be the masking of deleterious recessive mutations. The primary mechanism used by flowering plants to ensure outcrossing involves...

depression.[citation needed] Outcrossing is where two unrelated individuals are crossed to produce progeny. In outcrossing, unless there is verifiable...

quarantine laws) to work with GCCF Old-Style Siamese, TICA also allows outcrossing to registered Siamese of moderate type. In WCF and FIFe, natural, unregistered...

short hairs and domestic long hairs to be registered for the purpose of outcrossing. They should not be confused with standardized breeds with similar names...

After outcrossing to a cat of unknown parentage, at least three generations must be bred to establish a full pedigree record. In TICA outcrossing has mainly...

Lykoi. Since the mother to one litter was a black domestic, extensive outcrossing with short-haired black domestic cats began. With time, it was determined...

fundamental aspects of sexual reproduction, meiotic recombination and outcrossing, are likely maintained respectively by the adaptive advantages of recombinational...

the stigma to make a normal sized and shaped fruit.[citation needed] Outcrossing, or cross-fertilisation, and self-fertilisation represent different strategies...

male gametes. This is one of several methods used by plants to promote outcrossing. In many land plants the male and female gametes are produced by separate...

conducted to estimate the amount of outcrossing under local conditions in Malaysia. It was found that outcrossing occurred at a very low rate of about...

The designation A means one parent is a Savannah and the other is an outcross. B is used when both parents are Savannahs, with one of them being an A...

parents. Two aspects of sexual reproduction, meiotic recombination and outcrossing, are likely maintained respectively by the adaptive advantages of recombinational...

evolution as an adaptation for the promotion of cross-fertilisation (outcrossing), a process that allows the masking of deleterious mutations in the genome...

obligately self-pollinated cleistogamous flowers. The evolutionary shift from outcrossing to self-fertilization is one of the most common evolutionary transitions...

one method for excluding self-fertilization and promoting allogamy (outcrossing), and thus tends to reduce the expression of recessive deleterious mutations...

conditions and concluded that outcrossing occurs only about once every 50,000 cell divisions. This low frequency of outcrossing implies that there is little...

extensive outcross program, to increase the breed's vitality, fertility and genetic variation. The Dutch kennel club approved the outcross programme in...

nationalism Genetic pollution Master race Mental hygiene Miscegenation Monoethnicity One-drop rule Outcrossing Purebred Race of the future Racial segregation...

examined inbreeding in his writings, contrasting it with the advantages of outcrossing in many species. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the...

ergotism in humans and other mammals. C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat...

allowed historically include Persians. The group also allowed some limited outcrossing to IRCA Ragdolls initially (ended in 2010 for ACFA-recognized Ragamuffins)...

sorghum) and C. lutea (on paspalum). C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat...

partners. It is widely accepted that the first vascular plants were outcrossing hermaphrodites. In flowering plants, hermaphroditism is ancestral to...

Arabidopsis thaliana is a predominantly self-pollinating plant that has an outcrossing rate in the wild estimated at less than 0.3%, and self-pollination appears...

play a crucial role in attracting a partner and in facilitating outcrossing. Outcrossing would provide the benefit of masking the expression of deleterious...

analyzed the ancestry of natural S. cerevisiae strains and concluded that outcrossing occurs only about once every 50,000 cell divisions. Thus, it appears...

extends such rights to all animals. Many Swiss dog breeders have begun outcrossing Bulldogs with the Olde English Bulldogge, having created the Continental...