Sentence examples for Natal conditions from inspiring English sources

Possibly, thrifty phenotypes are adaptive only when individuals remain in their natal environments or when natal conditions reliably predict adult environmental conditions, therefore it does not pay to compensate in body mass.

Inter-annual variability was measured for: (1) maternal conditions (one year prior to birth; B t-1 ); (2) in-utero and natal conditions (birth year and yearling; B 0 and B t+1 ); and (3) conditions during or prior to capture (Ct-1 and C0) (Table  1).

The variable capacity to expand adipose tissue need not be associated with pathology, rather it is a normal variation in adipose tissue plasticity, occurring during both malnutrition and normal post-natal conditions that enables the animal to manage its nutritional environment (Fig. 7).

that maximize early postnatal survival under adverse pre-natal conditions, at a cost in later-life reproduction and survival.

Our data indicate that they also play a vital role in maintaining pre-natal condition if birth is delayed by adverse weather, a common circumstance in this species.

Eight litters were exposed to the RCF procedure, while the other eight were reared normally, yielding 64 RCF and 64 CT offspring within a full-sib/half-sib (fs/hs) design [51], whereby for each sire both litters were assigned to the RCF- or CT post-natal condition, as appropriate to conduct variance component analysis, nested ANOVA and heritability estimates [51].

However, it has been observed that there is considerable variation in DNA methylation pattern between MZ twins which largely results from genetic lineage/makeup, pre- and post natal environmental conditions (Segal et al., 2016).

This has two important implications: 1) we cannot account for litter size effects, and 2) the centroid data used to determine natal climatic conditions may not be reflective of the actual natal location.

Post-natal sociodemographic conditions were similar to those described at baseline.

The issue at stake for children such as ours appears to be firmly rooted in a gender identity not congruent with their natal sex: a condition called gender dysphoria.

From encounters with predators to fierce ocean conditions, the natal migration is a testing time and it's estimated that survival across the entire natal year is around 60 percent.