breeding system

collocation in English

meanings of breedingand system

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breeding
noun[U]
uk /ˈbriː.dɪŋ/ us /ˈbriː.dɪŋ/
the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed ...
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system
noun
uk /ˈsɪs.təm/ us /ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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Examples of breeding system

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The breedingsystem of these snails, by permitting the rapid establishment of evolutionary novelties, allows the group to exploit marginal habitats.
At this scale, these results suggest that the dioecious breedingsystem is rare in successively smaller patches of tropical dry forest.
The origins and development of the modern international wheat breedingsystem are briefly introduced in the next section.
This might be related to the breedingsystem of this species.
The bromeliad showed a flexible breedingsystem with autogamy occurring in addition to cross-pollination.
The interaction between the amount of variation and breedingsystem was studied.
The direction (positive or negative) of the relationship between ectoparasite abundance and host body size did not depend on host phylogeny or breedingsystem.
Using phylogenetic approaches for the analysis of plant breedingsystem evolution.
Furthermore, the breedingsystem influences the maintenance of diversity under selection.
The hermaphroditic breedingsystem was the most abundant by number of individuals of trees and shrubs at all sites, with dioecy the second most abundant breeding system at five sites.
Observational and experimental methods were also used to investigate the breedingsystem and test the effectiveness of pollinator agents.
The type of breedingsystem is also likely to influence the spatial genetic structure, as this will affect the pattern of effective gene flow.
To study the breedingsystem, manually pollinated and bagged flowers were allowed to develop into fruits, and the details of fruit and seed set were analysed.
Quantitative genetics in plants : the effect of breedingsystem on genetic variability.
Spearman's rank correlations were used to search for associations between breedingsystem and dispersal mechanism of trees/shrubs and environmental variables.
Seed dispersal, breedingsystem, tree density and the spatial pattern of trees - a simulation approach.
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