It is a basic work for the application of marker-assisted selection and cloning of anti-disease gene in Japanese flounder selective breeding program.
The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction.
We saw some of those new cages being put to use during our visit, housing up to ten animals each as the park's breeding programme continues apace.
Bao Bao's parents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, are on loan from China, and the agreement calls for any pandas born to the breeding pair to be sent to the Chinese breeding program before they turn 4.
In order to produce good brood bitches in the breeding program, the breeder should only use the stud dogs that are produced by great dams since the X of the sire will be passed onto his daughters.
Conservationists hope a breeding program will salvage part of the genome.
The breed is very popular for exhibition and was virtually extinct until a handful of enthusiasts recently started a breeding program to revive it.
Researches on the vernalization gene and its allelic variation can efficiently facilitate the improvement of growth habit in breeding program.
Gene Banks are not just for the crop breeding programmes of the centres, but part of an international programme.
Rootstock breeding programs are receiving major emphasis in England, the USSR. and in Poland.
Red pandas, which are only slightly larger than domestic cats, are an endangered species found mostly in the eastern Himalayas. Many zoos worldwide have breeding programs.
World renowned breeder Roxann Hart of Rohara Arabians, reminisced and expressed her gratitude about how powerfully this single horse has impacted her life and her breeding program.
Tissue culture and transgenic research shortened the breeding program cycle, thus provided a promising way to obtain elite citrus germplasm that are cold tolerant.
