(n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
(n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pigs, crossbreeds of Swedish Landrace and Yorkshire, females and castrated males about 6 months old, were exposed to experimental stress.
(2) Cytogenetic studies of the mithun (Bos frontalis), the siri (Bos indicus) and their hybrids, as well as histological examinations of testes and epididymis of siri and hybrids were undertaken to throw further light on male hybrid infertility and interspecies incompatibility, in order to facilitate the possible development of a stable interspecies crossbreed which would be similar to the highly profitable jatsum, the female mithun cross siri hybrid.
(3) None of this is intended to defend Berlusconi, whose only justification on the world stage was as a long-running experiment into what happens when you crossbreed Benny Hill with Vladimir Putin.
(4) The area moment of inertia was equal at similar body weights in both crossbreeds, but the yield or maximal forces and stiffness of tibiotarsi were lower in the rapidly growing crossbreed F compared with crossbreed X.
(5) A peripheral active zone of greater porosity was predominantly characterised by radial fibrolamellar tissue in fast growing birds and covered a larger area in crossbreed F than in crossbreed X.
(6) Saanen, Saanen crossbreeds, and goats of other breeds that lack pigmented skin and live in sunbelt areas are at high risk for papillomatosis.
(7) On the basis of previous experiments with estradiol induced hip dysplasia it was suggested that German Shepherd are under influence of more maternal estrogens during fetal life than Greyhounds and Crossbreeds.
(8) Sheep from a closed experimental breeding flock containing Finnish Landrace, Ile de France, their F1 crossbreeds, and a new breed were tested for antibodies to maedi-visna virus in 1975 and 1985-86.
(9) Studied was the enzyme constellation, resp., activity of alkaline phosphatase (AP), glutamate-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (GPT), aldolase (ALD), leucin-aminopeptidase (LAP), cholinesterase (CE), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OCT), and guanase (G) in a total of 360 clinically normal and lactating and dry cows of the Black-and-White and Simmental crossbreeds.
(10) Normal pigs, crossbreeds of Swedish Landrace and Yorkshire, about 6 months old, were subjected to experimental stress, induced by the myorelaxant succinylcholine, for 12 min.
(11) One hundred and sixty-seven sheep of 32 breeds and crossbreeds affected by natural scrapie throughout Britain were tested for the presence of restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the PrP gene observed when their DNA was digested with EcoRI or HindIII.
(12) The mithun (Bos frontalis) and its hybrids with Bos indicus were studied to provide further cytogenetic information which might throw light on the mechanisms of the male hybrid infertility and facilitate the establishment of a stable crossbreed.
(13) Results of the investigation indicate that in Alsatians, 25% infestation with Strongyloides stercoralis, 25% Toxocara canis, 65% Ancylostoma caninum were found, in crossbreed between Alsatian and Mongrel, 15.56% infestation with Strongyloides stercoralis, 10.93% Toxascaris leonina, 25% Toxocara canis, 68.75% Ancylostoma caninum, 1.66% Dipylidium caninum were recorded while 15.88% infestation with Strongyloides stercoralis, 7.64% Toxocara leonina, 25.86% Toxocara canis, 77.64% Ancylostoma caninum, 2.25% Dipylidium caninum, 0.58% Trichuris vulpis, 1.17% Echinococcus granulosus, 0.58% Taenia ovis, 1.17% Taenia hydatigena and 21% coccidia oocyst were observed in Mongrel dogs.
(14) Skeletal development (appearance of secondary ossification centers) of Greyhounds, German Shepherds and their crossbreed offspring was studied.
(15) Gene frequencies were also determined in crossbreeds.
(16) Semen from those crossbreeds which exhibited complete spermatogenesis was more variable in terms of spermatozoal concentration, percentage of spermatozoa exhibiting progressive motility and levels of spermatozoal abnormalities.
(17) It is suggested that additional cytogenetic examination of blood lymphocytes and especially of testicles would help the understanding of the fertility barriers of hybrid males and would make a breeding programme for a stable crossbreed possible.
(18) Effects of exogenous administration of porcine recombinant somatotropin (rpST) on protein gain and metabolic rate were measured in three genotypes (castrated males) of pigs (Pietrain, Duroc and a crossbreed between Dutch Yorkshire and Dutch Landrace).
(19) Lambs originating from Suffolk, Milksheep and Texel crossbreeds were injected with saline, 500 micrograms ovine prolactin or 500 micrograms ovine GH within 30 min of parturition (n = 10).
(20) The MH resistant pigs were only slightly affected in both and the crossbreeds showed intermediate results.
Interbreed
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although some immunological relationship between E. acervulina and E. mivati has been demonstrated, we conclude that this failure of the 2 organisms to interbreed lends support to the status of E. mivati as a distinct species.
(2) The numbers, morphology and distribution of pulmonary endocrine cells in goats, sheep and the yak and its interbreeds with cattle, dzos and stols, were studied after their demonstration by means of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique with a polyclonal antiserum raised in the rabbit to human neuron-specific enolase, a marker for neuroendocrine cells.
(3) from 27 localities in Southern France has shown that this species is composed of two kinds of sympatric populations which do not interbreed in nature.
(4) The numbers, morphology and distribution of pulmonary endocrine cells in goats, sheep, and the yak and its interbreeds were demonstrated by means of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique using a polyclonal antiserum to neuron-specific enolase.
(5) The particularities of the genetic structure formings of the different genetic systems (biochemical and immunogenetic markers) in the breeds, interbreed crosses of sheep and groups of cattle in connections with the locus, breed and the way of the productivity trait selections were described.
(6) The possibilities to solve some applied and fundamental problems of mammalian reproduction given by the method of interstrain and interbreed early stage embryos transfer are discussed.
(7) The fact that various species of both placental mammals and birds show evidence of heritability for heart defects, and that these species cannot interbreed, combined with the fact that birds and mammals have many similar malformations, points to either a common external causative factor or a common origin.
(8) The results indicate that the two species do not interbreed in the nature.
(9) If these specific allelic interactions are assumed to be independent, then variances and covariances between sire x breed-group-of-dam interaction subclasses can be shown to be linear combinations of variances and covariances of specific intra- and interlocus intra- and interbreed allelic interactions.
(10) Similar protection was obtained when 4 distinct populations which were allowed to interbreed were used in the immunizing inoculum.
(11) They were much less common and found mainly as clusters in the alveolar capillary walls in goats and in the yak and its interbreeds with cattle.
(12) The avian and fox isolates successfully interbred with the type T. pseudospiralis isolate, but they failed to interbreed with 3 encapsulating species, Trichinella spiralis, Trichinella nativa, and Trichinella britovi.