The phrase "a particular offspring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific child or young animal in a context where you want to emphasize individuality or distinction.
Example: "In the study of genetics, researchers focused on a particular offspring to analyze the inherited traits."
Alternatives: "a specific child" or "a distinct young one".
The probability g ^ A B that any particular offspring develops into a good parent is then given by solving (27) (1 − g ^ A B ) 1 / f ^ A B = (1 − g ^ G G ) 1 / f G G. We can now calculate the reproductive value of good and poor quality mutants.
The probability g ^ A B that any particular offspring develops into a good parent is then given by solving (34) (1 − g ^ A B ) 1 / f ^ A B = (1 − g G G ) 1 / f G G. Since mutant offspring always return to their parents' group, the proportion of good parents among newly recruited individuals g ^ 1 is no longer fixed, rather depending on how much care mutants provide relative to typical individuals.
If one particular offspring is shown not to be up to the task, it is discarded.
There is evidence that colonization alters reproductive traits [60], in particular offspring fecundity [42].
Therefore, our results suggest that parents invest differentially in their offspring in order to both preferentially favour particular offspring or reduce offspring inequalities arising from sibling competition.
By contrast, in cases where parents differentially invest resources to particular offspring we would predict that the pattern of Hertwig et al. will not be upheld.
In particular, offspring number was positively associated with the number of eggs only in clutches receiving high maternal care or consisting of heavy eggs, and negatively associated with mean egg mass in clutches receiving low care.
'Haa' calls are suggested to develop from begging calls (Heinrich & Marzluff 1991) and might convey individually distinct information from the early developmental stages; they may be used by parents to localize (particular) offspring after fledging.
In particular, offspring of mice exposed to industrial combustion from Hamilton Harbor demonstrated an increased incidence (i.e., 1.5- to 2-fold higher expanded simple tandem repeat mutation rates than animals exposed to ambient air) of DNA mutation rates that were paternally derived.
A commonality of excessive occurrence of a particular birth defect among offspring of American veterans, and offspring of Iraqi veterans and resident civilians would decrease the likelihood that certain of those 21 toxins had a causal role in the elevated rate of occurrence of that defect among American veterans' offspring.
