breeding system
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreedingandsystem
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breeding
noun[U]
uk/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/
the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed ...
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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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Thebreedingsystemof these snails, by permitting the rapid establishment of evolutionary novelties, allows the group to exploit marginal habitats.
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At this scale, these results suggest that the dioeciousbreedingsystemis rare in successively smaller patches of tropical dry forest.
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The origins and development of the modern international wheatbreedingsystemare briefly introduced in the next section.
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This might be related to thebreedingsystemof this species.
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The bromeliad showed a flexiblebreedingsystemwith autogamy occurring in addition to cross-pollination.
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The interaction between the amount of variation andbreedingsystemwas studied.
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The direction (positive or negative) of the relationship between ectoparasite abundance and host body size did not depend on host phylogeny orbreedingsystem.
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Using phylogenetic approaches for the analysis of plantbreedingsystemevolution.
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Furthermore, thebreedingsysteminfluences the maintenance of diversity under selection.
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The hermaphroditicbreedingsystemwas the most abundant by number of individuals of trees and shrubs at all sites, with dioecy the second most abundant breeding system at five sites.
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Observational and experimental methods were also used to investigate thebreedingsystemand test the effectiveness of pollinator agents.
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The type ofbreedingsystemis also likely to influence the spatial genetic structure, as this will affect the pattern of effective gene flow.
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To study thebreedingsystem, manually pollinated and bagged flowers were allowed to develop into fruits, and the details of fruit and seed set were analysed.
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Quantitative genetics in plants : the effect ofbreedingsystemon genetic variability.
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Spearman's rank correlations were used to search for associations betweenbreedingsystemand dispersal mechanism of trees/shrubs and environmental variables.
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Seed dispersal,breedingsystem, tree density and the spatial pattern of trees - a simulation approach.
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