The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of inbreeding on lactation performance in Holstein cows of Iran.The pedigree file contained information of 1,025,281 animals born between 1965 and 2007.Lactation performance records from March 2000 to April 2009 comprising 193,501calving events on 123,751 cows in 85 dairy herds were included in the data set. The potential consequent effe...

eight promising lines of bread wheat which had been selected through the preliminary and advanced traits, together with two check cultivar shiroudi and tajan were evaluated for yield, adabtability and response to cereal diseases in an on farm experiment conducted in two sites in moghan. combined analysis of variance on yield and yield components showed significant differences of lines in yield ...

is no doubt that intensity of natural selection varies with characters, T z " , a t long-term unidirectional selection counteracts natural selection, which in the long run favors intermediate and physiologically harmonious genotypes. As a joint product of these two pressures, genetic variation in populations plateaued by selection is often complex (CLAYTON and ROBERTSON 1957). REEVE and ROBERTS...

Southern leaf blight (SLB) is one of the major diseases that cause substantial yield losses in maize (Zea mays L.) worldwide. Stacking broad-spectrum resistance genes/QTLs into prevalent cultivars prerequisite for durable disease breeding programme. Therefore, a study was carried at research farm and molecular biology laboratory School Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab University, Ludhiana, du...

Abstract Sexual selection is predicted to influence population persistence because skew in male reproductive success may facilitate the purging of mutation load. We manipulated strength sexual populations Indian meal moths, Plodia interpunctella, by adjusting adult sex ratios be either male- or female-biased, leading strong and weak males, respectively. After between 19 22 generations experimen...

We evaluated the potential of the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) along with the relationship coefficient for predicting the performance of untested maize single-cross hybrids. Ninety S(0:2) progenies arising from three single-cross hybrids were used. The 90 progenies were genotyped with 25 microsatellite markers, with nine markers linked to quantitative trait loci for grain yield. Based ...

a pedigree file consisting of 5860 individuals, 167 sires and 1582 dams collected at makooei sheep breeding station (msbs) during a period of 24 years (1990 to 2013) was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficients to reveal any probable effects of inbreeding (f) on the studied traits. the studied traits were classified to the five main groups including body weight, kleiber ratio, body measure...

Polymorphic enzyme and minisatellite loci were used to estimate the degree of inbreeding in experimentally bottlenecked populations of the butterfly, Bicyclus anynana (Satyridae), three generations after founding events of 2, 6, 20, or 300 individuals, each bottleneck size being replicated at least four times. Heterozygosity fell more than expected, though not significantly so, but this traditi...

In gynodioecious species, male-steriles (termed "females" hereafter) usually exhibit some reproductive advantage over hermaphrodites that allow them to compensate for the loss of male reproductive function. This compensation can result from higher fecundity, vegetative outperformance, and/or lower inbreeding depression. In this study we compared vegetative and reproductive parameters of female ...

yekta was created in 1981 from crossing between b5 ? m7 and an early maturing palistinian line, in oil seed crops research department of seed and plant improvement institute (spii) at karaj. the pure line of the cross was obtained after five years of selection with pedigree method. preliminary evaluation of the line along with other 31 selected lines was done in 1989 and yekta together with oth...