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- noun Plural form of
outcross . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outcross .
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Examples
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Mating distinct outcrosses is also something of a guessing game as they often have little history with the dominant local strains, leaving the best course of action to locate deeper concentrations of bloodlines that are also found in the domestic breed and hope that the "genetic goodies" come through from there.
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Forster H, Tyler BM, Coffey MD (1994) Phytophthora sojae races have arisen by clonal evolution and by rare outcrosses.
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