Browsing by Subject "artificial selection"
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(2019-07-08)Commercial meat-chickens (broilers) have been heavily selected for performance traits including high body weights, large breast muscle size, and improved feed efficiency. The wooden breast condition (WB) is a consequence ...
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(2015-07-24)Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are carrion feeding insects that perform a critical ecological service by recycling nutrients throughout temperate and tropic regions of the world. Some members of this guild are parasites ...
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(2023-07-31)Gene flow and selection are two of the major evolutionary forces that generate life’s diversity. Interspecies hybridization and selective breeding represent extreme cases of these two major evolutionary forces. Utilizing ...