Sentence examples for a group of breeding from inspiring English sources

A herd of origin was defined as a group of breeding livestock in the U.S. Feedlots, dealers, and calf- or heifer-raising facilities were excluded.

The prevailing mating system in a group of breeding individuals thus dynamically derives from the optimal, or at least available, mating strategies of all the involved individuals at a given time [ 4, 5].

The trend observed in the smaller group of breeding season birds holds when birds from outside of the breeding season have been added to the sample: the housing condition has a greater effect on females than males and a greater effect on phasic tuning width than sustained.

At a conference in Chengdu in December 1996, a group of international breeding specialists, together with around 50 Chinese scientists, agreed to overhaul the programme.

Nevertheless, a previous model concluded that variance in infection between competing groups of breeding individuals impedes the spread of CI.

In this study, we systematically explore the possible relations between design and management of willow SRC and the occurrence of individual species and ecological groups of breeding birds.

A group of 90 Danish Holstein breeding bulls in addition to the four sequenced cows was genotyped for the selected variants.

Clade 2 comprises a group of 11 species with breeding distributions around the Mediterranean (including southwestern Asia), and includes three Mediterranean island endemics (balearica, sarda, and melanothorax).

As a result, it would still be important to evaluate the direct effect of florfenicol in a larger group of breeding-aged cockerels, for further sex-related side effects.

In contrast, when species form groups as an adaptation to intraspecific challenges (e.g., competition with conspecific groups or with members of their own group over a lack of breeding vacancies or critical resources; Emlen, 1982; West et al., 2006; Reeve and Hölldobler, 2007; Gonzalez et al., 2013; Hsiang et al., 2013), cooperation should enable individuals to specialize in a single environment.

Groups of females sharing a nest can be relatively stable, consisting of two to nine individuals, although a male may be found with a group of females outside the breeding season.