Sentence examples for breeding mites from inspiring English sources
Although we have controlled for maternal effects by breeding mites from the different selection lines for two generations under identical conditions, it remains possible that the observed effects are under control of for instance epigenetic effects rather than driven by genomic changes under natural selection [58].
Therefore, when a female is paired with a larger male, the evolutionary interests of the pair are broadly aligned when breeding alongside mites – in the sense that each sex would have a greater lifespan subsequently were the mites not there.
When paired with larger males, females too suffered a reduction in lifespan when breeding alongside mites.
This can explain why females live longer after breeding alongside mites, but only when their male is small.
In this situation, and unlike the male, the female has a relatively long life after reproduction when breeding alongside mites.
Get rid of the bedroom rug, another mite breeding ground; if problems persist, take away upholstered furniture and curtains.
Furthermore, after the breeding event all the mites were removed from the parents in the 'mite' treatment, and beetles were stored without any mites.
By comparing these measures with equivalent measures of fitness taken from families breeding in the absence of mites, we also investigated whether mites influenced evolutionary conflicts of interest or cooperation within the family.
For example, we assessed whether mites changed the outcome of sexual conflict over parental investment by examining whether the costs of care were divided differently between the sexes when beetles bred alongside mites compared with breeding in their absence (see Kilner et al., in revision eLife, for similar reasoning).
Insights into these mechanisms may lead to new molecular tools for both Varroa diagnosis and selective breeding of mite-tolerant honey bees for the bee industry.
Mr. Furman said the antibedbug treatment probably killed some mites but failed to eradicate their breeding grounds in the walls.
