Sentence examples for almost all offspring from inspiring English sources
To estimate the true paternity level in L. saxatilis we now genotyped almost all offspring in four large broods from our previous experiment.
However, the payoff is also high because an adult male can dominate an egg-laying female and almost all offspring are sired by that male.
Parent assignment with a high level of accuracy based on the number of opposing homozygotes in parent-offspring pairs was possible for almost all offspring from the multi-sire matings.
The French researchers were very surprised to discover that almost all the surviving offspring had white extremities, including those with two normal genes.
Almost all of the offspring are transgenic [carry the new gene], so you're not screening hundreds of animals to find the transgenic ones".
Rates of extra-pair paternity (EPP) are highly variable between species, ranging from none to almost all broods containing EP offspring [ 2- 5].
In the lightly pigmented offspring, almost all of the tyrosinase alleles that were expected to have been derived from the m2 and m3 males had nucleotide deletions or substitutions, but maintained an in-frame coding region (Table 1), suggesting that these in-frame mutations reduced the activity of the enzyme but did not result in complete gene inactivation.
Gene drives are engineered, and designed genes that can break typical inheritance rules and be passed to almost all of the carrier's offspring.
Consequently, the social system may also influence the rate of EPP, and indeed, the highest rates of EPP are found in group-living and cooperatively breeding Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) where 72% of all offspring are extra-pair offspring and almost all broods contain extra-pair offspring [7], [8].
