(1) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(2) Dogs with mammary adenocarcinoma and mixed mammary cancer had similar degrees of inbreeding.
(3) Although many studies report deleterious effects of inbreeding on prereproductive mortality (death before age 20 years), such effects are usually measured in terms of genetic load, a concept much debated in the literature.
(4) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(5) Experimental increase in the fraction of tolerant response was obtained by decreasing the virus dose or by phenotypic inbreeding of rodents.
(6) Fitness measures appeared linearly related to the inbreeding coefficient of the liters, with no diminution of deleterious effects through subsequent generations of inbreeding.
(7) He postulates that this greater antimeric variance could be due to a greater degree of inbreeding in the Neandertal populations.
(8) However, in the Frankfurt line at least, one of the presumed alleles is likely to be lost due to inbreeding.
(9) The increase in inter se relationship without corresponding increase in inbreeding indicates that a change in mating strategies has evolved over time.
(10) The calculated values of gamete and endogamy indices were indicative of intensive migration processes, weak isolation by distance, and minimal inbreeding.
(11) Inbreeding coefficient was estimated for Adyg population and its structure analysed: a random component contributes mostly to the inbreeding coefficient (Fst = 0.00991), non-random component of the inbreeding coefficient being Fis = 0.010009, which testifies to negative marital assortativity among Adygs.
(12) Inbreeding depression was not enough to cause large reductions of milk and fat yield of a cow with average inbreeding.
(13) The rise in inbreeding levels in the Amish over time can be uniquely contrasted with the decline in inbreeding in most areas of the world.
(14) The present inbreeding in Norway is low (alpha4 = 0-000242), approximately one-eighth of the estimated level according to the 1891 census.
(15) This is supported by the dependence established between the frequency of the cases of oligophrenia among female persons and the inbreeding coefficient for the X-linked loci.
(16) The significance of such selection models is discussed for the retention of variability in inbreeding populations with a minimum of segregational load and higher overall stability in contrast to the overdominance models.
(17) Although the finding of a preference for siblings in estrous females is counter to expectations from an inbreeding avoidance approach, this is one of a variety of findings to suggest that not all animals avoid inbreeding all of the time.
(18) Suppression of reproduction in female offspring while they remain with the extended family unit is discussed as a life-history tactic and as a possible mechanism for inbreeding avoidance.
(19) Therefore the isonymy analysis gives a misestimation of the inbreeding coefficient, depending on the prevailing form of nonrandomness.
(20) Skin grafts were exchanged between siblings from 16 inbreeding lines of rabbits.
Population
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
(n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(2) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
(3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(5) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(7) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(8) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(9) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(10) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(11) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(13) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(14) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(16) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(17) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(18) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
(19) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(20) We therefore enumerated the percentage of Leu2a+ cells as well as the occurrence of HLA-DR activation markers within this population.