(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.
Lurcher
Definition:
(n.) One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.
(n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.
(n.) A glutton; a gormandizer.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that in spite of cerebellar degeneration and ataxia, lurcher mutants are not impaired in all tests measuring motor function.
(2) Immunocytochemical analysis of aggregation chimeras made using either of the mutants, Lurcher or Purkinje cell degeneration, previously showed that only Bergmann glia close to surviving Purkinje cells expressed an apparently normal level of the enzyme, glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) (Fisher and Mullen, 1988).
(3) Lurcher Purkinje cells, in contrast, receive scattered contacts by GAD-IR puncta and possess a "cap" of such elements surrounding the primary dendrite and apical soma.
(4) Lurcher mice show 100% degeneration of Purkinje cells, starting during the second postnatal week, while staggerer mice show reduced numbers of Purkinje cells in a distinctive mediolateral distribution from the time of birth, with the remainder grossly stunted.
(5) We conclude that the Lurcher cerebellum is particularly sensitive to thyroid hormone, and that it responds to low levels of hyperthyroidism in a distinct way.
(6) It was found that, in comparison to littermate controls, the lurcher mutants alternated less often in a discrete two-trial procedure of spontaneous alternation and did not habituate to maze stimuli in a T-maze.
(7) The response of IP neurones in normal and Lurcher mice appear to be similar to those observed in the normal and experimentally cerebellar decorticate cat, respectively.
(8) These afferents maintain dense perisomatic nests around Purkinje cells, even in P13-15 lurchers.
(9) In the present study, we examined the IL-6 mRNA expression by stimulated peripheral macrophages of two cerebellar mutant mice, the staggerer and the lurcher mutants.
(10) It is concluded that the mossy fibre input to the cerebellum is intact in the Lurcher mutant mouse.
(11) In contrast, the lurcher cerebellum exhibited enzyme activity in both molecular and granular layers.
(12) This study examines the question of whether intrinsically defective mutant Lurcher Purkinje cells, which degenerate during postnatal weeks two to five, followed by later loss of granule cells are competent to respond to neonatal hyperthyroidism, which is known to cause premature differentiation of Purkinje cells and an acceleration of the peak of proliferation in granule cells in normal rodent cerebellum.
(13) Although they are normal in number, previous work from our laboratories has shown that when the genetically wild-type Purkinje cells are present in the mosaic environment of the lurcher chimeric mouse they develop a very unusual morphology.
(14) The response characteristics of interpositus neurones (IP) to sciatic nerve stimulation were studied in normal and Lurcher mutant mice under pentobarbitone anaesthesia.
(15) This proved incorrect and, indeed, the Purkinje cells in the lurcher chimeras show changes of a predominantly atrophic nature.
(16) Quantitative analysis of Golgi-Cox impregnated material reveals that in lurcher chimeras the Purkinje cell dendritic arbor is reduced by more than 60% compared to wild-type animals.
(17) In lurcher mice, Purkinje cells degenerate during the first few postnatal weeks, after receiving synaptic contacts from both inferior olivary neurons and granule cells.
(18) Lurcher is an autosomal dominant mutation in the mouse.
(19) Cerebella of Lurcher and control age-matched (from P8 to P16) mice were analysed by calbindin immunostaining, silver impregnation and quantitative electron microscopy.
(20) These benzodiazepine binding sites in washed homogenates or tissue sections displayed a gamma-aminobutyrate-induced enhancement of [3H]flunitrazepam binding which occurred to the same extent in both Lurcher and normal cerebellum, a facilitatory effect which could be blocked by the addition of bicuculline methobromide.