Sentence examples for begin reproduction from inspiring English sources

Godfray (1994) suggested that the high metabolic costs of pheromone production, combined with the haplodiploid genetic system which means that females do not need to be inseminated to begin reproduction (due to haplodiploidy virginity being costly, but not fatal for fitness), may have contributed to the rarity of long-distance pheromones in parasitoids.

Results are more pronounced for species beginning reproduction before first harvest ('spawn-first' species) since their reproductive capacity is more sensitive to harvest rate, though differences are relatively slight over the range of growth and reproduction configurations examined.

The postulated growth rate of H. stebingeri outpaces those of tyrannosaurids (predators of hypacrosaurs) such as Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus; rapidly growing hypacrosaurs would have had a better chance to reach a size large enough to be of defensive value, and beginning reproduction at an early age would also have been advantageous to a prey animal.

This was partly because they began reproduction on average one year later than their brothers.

In accordance with this, our results showed that firstborn sons were those who gave birth to the largest numbers of offspring, and this is presumably because they began reproduction earlier.

However, when considering intra-sex birth-order categories, we did find that firstborn sons began reproduction on average almost two years earlier than their brothers (F2,560 = 6.54, p = 0.002; Figure 4a); in contrast, age at first reproduction did not significantly differ among sisters (respectively 26.2±0.4, 26.4±0.3, 25.9±0.4; F2,564 = 0.78, p = 0.5).

His idea: Wean the company from antiques, which were becoming increasingly expensive, and begin manufacturing reproductions overseas.

Further studies determined that sucrose accumulation could begin pre-reproduction in some sweet sorghum cultivars, but again found no correlation with the activities of enzymes involved in sucrose metabolism [ 77].

Finishing a jigsaw, though, means you have restored something that was ugly and useless to begin with — the reproduction, on cardboard, of a great work of art, or a sentimental scene.

EST feeding was started at 10 months of age in mice, at the age when estrus cycling and reproduction begin to slow down in long-lived females (Nelson et al., 1982).

Beginning Monday, reproductions of entire pages of the book will appear unannounced in locales referred to in those pages.