outcrossing
Speech parts
1. outcrossing - Noun
2. outcrossing - Verb
Meaning
outcrossing
present participle of outcross
outcrossing (plural outcrossings)
An organism produced by outcrossing
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In outcrossing, unless there is verifiable genetic information, one may find that all individuals are distantly related to an ancient progenitor.
In L. braziliensis matings in nature are predominantly between related individuals resulting in extreme inbreeding. citation The rate of outcrossing between different strains of Leishmania in the sand fly vector depends on the frequency of co-infection.
These observations suggest that the possible long-term benefits of outcrossing (e.g. generation of diversity) are likely to be insufficient for generally maintaining sex from one generation to the next.
Such outcrossing events appear to be rare in L. major and L. donovani. citation L. infantum produces proteins BRCA1 and RAD51 that interact with each other to promote homologous recombinational repair. citation These proteins play a key role in meiosis.
Owing to the small numbers of surviving specimens outcrossing was used in the breeding programme.
The preliminary studies show results inconsistent with the outcrossing paradigm based on individual environments of the studied groups.