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Definition of Outcrossing
1. outcross [v] - See also: outcross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outcrossing
Literary usage of Outcrossing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poultry Culture Sanitation and Hygiene by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1920)
"(Continued) LINE BREEDING, outcrossing, AND INBREEDING Breeding together of sire
and offspring, or of dam and offspring, or of brother and sister, ..."
2. Transposable Elements in Plants: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and Bibliography by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"Selected transformants were grown up to maturity, and second-generation seedlings
with segregation for GUS activity were obtained after outcrossing. ..."
3. A Review of Dipterocarps: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Silviculture by Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M. Turnbull (1998)
"outcrossing rates of Dipterocarps. Species outcrossing Rate tm (± standard ...
(1994) compared outcrossing rates of Dryobalanops aromatica in primary and ..."
4. Poultry Breeding and Management by James Dryden (1916)
"outcrossing.—The term outcrossing is frequently used by breeders. ... If a careful
system of outcrossing be practiced, resort to crossing will probably ..."
5. Application of Rflp & Rapd Molecular Technologies to Plant Breeding: A ...edited by Andrew Kalinski edited by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"Here we report high outcrossing rates (65-92%) in two ... These outcrossing rates,
when analysed with respect to existing evidence concerning pollen ..."
6. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"For homozygotes this is so because if they result from selfing, then with
probability one half the ancestors coalesce, and if they result from outcrossing, ..."
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