Sentence examples for breeding maturity from inspiring English sources

The Eurasian tree sparrow reaches breeding maturity within a year from hatching, and typically builds its nest in a cavity in an old tree or rock face.

Sharks are slow to reach breeding maturity.

See also animal breeding; plant breeding.

Because the main target in breeding for maturity is the time required for heading, many genes for heading time have been cloned and the regulatory networks clarified (Tsuji et al. 2013; Matsubara et al. 2014; Shrestha et al. 2014).

In the different multivariate analyses, several lines with similar pedigree often clustered into the same group, but the groups did not correspond to breeding programs, maturity groups or adaptation.

Our results, however, did not show clear separation by breeding programs, maturity groups (extra early, early, intermediate and late), adaptation or mega-environments (lowland tropical zone, wet and dry subtropical zones and highland zone), and specific traits such as disease resistance (e.g, resistance to maize streak virus), and drought tolerance.

This cost included the purchase of 50 male calves from contract matings, their maintenance until maturity and from maturity until breeding value estimation from PPT, and compensation payments for test bull insemination.

In European maize breeding, early maturity of high yielding varieties is an important breeding goal, since the short growing season limits productivity.

Sexual maturity and breeding behavior do not appear in the Andean condor until the bird is five or six years of age.

The value R i indicates the number of hatchlings per breeding pair surviving until maturity (population growth rate).

We expect to achieve our ultimate sales goal by the first few months of 2005 when our breeding stock reaches maximum maturity.