Sentence examples for affect the offspring from inspiring English sources

These conditions in pregnant women may affect the offspring.

"My concern is that we don't know how all of this is going to affect the offspring.

Overall, this study suggested that EMP exposure may lead to the disturbance of reproductive hormone levels and affect the offspring sex ratio.

One damaged copy is not enough to affect the offspring (the child would be a carrier of the disease, but would not suffer from it), but if two copies are passed on one from a donor, one from the mother then the child will have the chronic and often fatal disease.

Taken together, these results indicate that mouse dams adjust specific aspects of maternal behaviour in response to the specific properties of their environment, and that active maternal care and nest site attendance are two aspects of maternal behaviour that may affect the offspring's stress and fear systems independent of each other and in a sex-specific way.

More research has been done in tobacco use, pesticides, and obesity, which are all thought to affect the offspring, though research is still underway to understand more.

Such changes may adversely affect the offsprings' future health, development, productivity and fertility [ 3 ].

It appeared as though the mare's encounter with the male quagga had permanently altered her, leaving some indelible imprint of 'quagga-ness' that affected the offspring of her later matings.

Litter size variation depending on the acorn harvest affected the offspring's sex allocation depending on the maternal body condition.

If exposure to diabetes in utero directly affects the offspring the maternal-offspring association will be much stronger than the paternal-offspring association.

Maternal genetic effects occur if the mother's genotype affects the offspring's phenotype beyond the effects of her genetic contribution to offspring phenotypes.