The phrase "a proxy for breeding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one thing is being used as a substitute or stand-in for another, particularly in discussions about genetics, animal husbandry, or research.
Example: "In this study, body size was measured as a proxy for breeding success among the species."
Alternatives: "a substitute for breeding" or "a stand-in for breeding".
Thus, size of human settlements is taken as a proxy for available breeding opportunities, whereby small rural settlements are generally poorer than urban centres in breeding opportunities, and organic enrichment of larval habitats in denser settlements may increase the bioavailability of nutrients.
Additional phenotyping of the application populations is in progress, and using the average over multiple years may yield more stable estimates of the phenotypic performance (as a proxy for true breeding values), which could further increase the accuracy of the predicted breeding values.
The length of the birth season, used as a proxy for the breeding season, also showed a tendency to covary with the number of males independently of the number of females.
High repeatability (see [40]) justifies the use of one estimate of AOC per individual and year as a proxy for the relative AOC level during a given breeding season.
This quantity can be used as a proxy for the correlation of the DGV with the true breeding value [ 4], which is why it is abbreviated as "rTBV,DGV".
We did this by using estimated foraging ranges of breeding seabirds, and variables such as chlorophyll as a proxy for primary production.
Indeed, Bell and colleagues determined that the mass of male testes, which is a proxy for sperm competition, is smaller and less variable in frogs that hide while breeding, indicating they are less vulnerable to other males horning in.
We consider that the correlation between the estimated breeding values for the MT models is a proxy for the genetic correlation used in the model.
Therefore, the Yanbian can be seen to some extend as a proxy for the original Hanwoo population prior to the implementation of the national breeding scheme.
