Sentence examples for average egg size from inspiring English sources

A result, the researchers said after studying successive generations of Chinook salmon at a hatchery in British Columbia, is that over time, average egg size becomes smaller.

This explains the decline in the hatchery population's average egg size from 0.27 grams in 1988 to 0.20 grams in 2001, they say.

For a given female, therefore, we recorded the total number of eggs laid over the two week period, the average hatching success and the average egg size.

Populations differed in average egg size (F4,38 = 5.51, P = 0.002; Table  1) with eggs from Kiese females being significantly smaller than eggs from Giesse and Worble females.

The measure of fecundity is not an absolute measure of the fish investment in reproductive cells, and it will be useful to obtain the fecundity in relation to average egg size for future comparative studies.

Although populations differed in average egg size, we found no evidence for a direct association between mean egg size and survival or hatching, suggesting that differential maternal investment is not responsible for the absence of local adaptation here.

Egg size averages 41 x 31 mm, although each successive egg in a clutch is slightly smaller than the first laid.

Three measurements per egg were taken from five eggs of each female and averaged to obtain estimates for egg size (Table  1).

That's three times the size of an average egg, the farmers explain on their Facebook page.

As egg size, we used average egg area of all the egg masses laid by an individual.

Moreover, comparable values we observed for S. partitus (1/2covA + m = 0.33) are reasonably close to the average correlation between maternal size and egg size.