inbreeding coefficient

collocation in English

meaningsofinbreedingandcoefficient

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inbreeding
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪnˈbriː.dɪŋ/us
/ˈɪn.briː.dɪŋ/
a situation in which plants, animals, or people are produced by breeding between closely related plants, animals, ...
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coefficient
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
a value, in mathematics, that appears in front of and multiplies ...
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The actual (observed)inbreedingcoefficientat generation t at these loci was obtained in two ways.
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Effect of excluding sib matings oninbreedingcoefficientand effective size of finite diploid populations.
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We additionally investigated the relationships between family growth and the relatedness or theinbreedingcoefficientof their parents.
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Crosses were made among replicate populations at a given generation (inbreedingcoefficient).
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Estimation of theinbreedingcoefficientfrom phenotype frequencies by a method of maximum likelihood scoring.
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Inferences about inbreeding depression based upon changes ofinbreedingcoefficient.
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The percentage of such anomalous valves was found to be positively correlated with theinbreedingcoefficientof specimens.
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Every individual's survival (inviable=0, viable=1),inbreedingcoefficientand ancestralinbreedingcoefficientwere calculated and recorded.
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The meaninbreedingcoefficient(a) was calculated from the frequencies of these types of unions.
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Effect of excluding sib matings oninbreedingcoefficientand effective size of finite populations.
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The former explanation would lead to different regressions of proportions of initial genetic diversity retained againstinbreedingcoefficientfor molecular and quantitative characters.
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Exactinbreedingcoefficientand effective size of finite populations under partial sib mating.
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Hence, we have reinforced the concept that in order to manage the loss of long-term genetic variation, group coancestry should be managed rather than theinbreedingcoefficient.
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This resulted in a breeding population for each line of around 60 individuals, so that the expectedinbreedingcoefficientby the end of the experiment was about 16%.
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Compared with no crossing, line crossing could lower the risk of extinction and theinbreedingcoefficient of the purged population substantially with little loss of the effectiveness of purging.
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Theoretically, this method can be extended to predict any n-loci (n>4) simultaneousinbreedingcoefficient.
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Some methods of estimating theinbreedingcoefficient.
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With the same expectedinbreedingcoefficient, a larger population tends to have a smaller extent of drift at the selected loci (see below), resulting in a higher viability.
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