Sentence examples for and offspring in a from inspiring English sources

One way to measure the heritability of a behavioral trait is to determine the average values of the behaviour for the parents and offspring in a sample of families within a population and calculate the linear relationship between offspring values and parental values.

In order to examine whether or not bilateral tool transfer was maintained in a short-term reciprocal manner, we tested the mothers and offspring in a situation in which they could not expect any short-term reciprocation from the partner.

The fact that we find here that these SNPs do not account for the beneficial glucose handling in longevity is in line with our observation that beta cell function does not differ between partners and offspring in an oral glucose tolerance test [ 5].

The chimpanzee mothers and offspring in the present study gave a tool to a partner 84.7% of the trials in experiment 1 and 90.3% in experiment 2. In contrast, in a previous study [25], which experimentally examined food sharing from the same mothers to offspring (when the offspring were less than 2 years old), food was transferred only 32.0% of the trials.

The Secret River by Kate Grenville When William Thornhill is transported to the other side of the world for a minor theft, wife and offspring in tow, he is catapulted into a wild and lawless land where life is cheap but opportunity abounds.

The numbers of hatchery and wild fish are important because the numbers of pure hatchery and wild offspring in a sample should be proportional to the parental numbers and because the opportunity for interbreeding may also be influenced by numbers of fish.

Here we examine whether specific forms of preventable death (accidents/suicides, alcohol-related causes, and other preventable diseases) are predicted by marital status and dependent offspring in a modern developed context; that of Northern Ireland.

Likewise, oral DDT exposure increased the body weights of female mice and their offspring in a two-generation chronic-exposure study (Tomatis et al. 1972).

However, as described in detail in Thompson and Meagher (1987), if we cannot exclude two full-sibs, v i and v j, as parent and offspring, they in general give a higher likelihood than do true parents.

I assessed potential genotypic divergence and predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in morphology between reservoir and stream populations by spawning C. lutrensis adults from a reservoir and stream population in the laboratory and rearing their offspring in a split-cohort common garden experiment with or without a predator present.

After birth, the number, viability and the size of offspring in a litter were observed.