The phrase "as reproducers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing roles or functions, particularly in biological, social, or metaphorical discussions about reproduction or replication.
Example: "In the ecosystem, various species act as reproducers, ensuring the continuation of their genetic lineage."
Alternatives: "as creators" or "as generators".
Wet-nursing is a uniquely gendered kind of exploitation, and under slavery it represented the point at which the exploitation of enslaved women as workers and as reproducers literally intersected.
One method is to select as reproducers, animals with the highest ability to fight infection.
One method to improve durably animal welfare is to select, as reproducers, animals with the highest ability to resist or tolerate infection.
Godfrey-Smith classifies genes as scaffolded reproducers since they rely on cellular machinery for their reproduction (p. 130).
Generally in Sri Lanka, motherhood is crucial to female identity, and women are perceived as natural reproducers, nurturers, mothers and wives [ 13, 32, 33].
A related notion is suggested by Peter Godfrey-Smith, who defines scaffolded reproducers as "entities which get reproduced as part of the reproduction of some larger unit (a simple reproducer), or that are reproduced by some other entity" (Godfrey-Smith 2009, p. 88).
Women have literally borne many of slavery's burdens not just as laborers but also as the literal reproducers of capital that enriched slave owners, making them among the wealthiest people on the planet.
In addition, Sundazed Records in Coxsackie, N.Y., recently arrived on the LP scene as a reproducer of fuzz-damaged classics by vintage acts like the Young Rascals.
Until… until she dares to live a different solution made possible by the historical moment of second-wave feminism that puts to an end the understanding of a daughter as only reproducer of a mother's life.
Finally, we discuss all too briefly the role of information in replication, and the notion of reproducers as a solution to these problems.
Others, using the notion of reproducers, treat replication as an embodied process of coding.
