Sentence examples for brood mass from inspiring English sources

When present, carcass mass, brood mass at dispersal, and adult size were entered as covariates.

This provides a unique opportunity to test whether variance in brood mass decreases, and predictability of brood mass increases, with group size, as was suggested by Wenzel and Pickering [ 1].

At dispersal, we measured total brood mass and size and set up the larvae individually for pupation and eclosion.

The effect of the father's early-life environment on ( A ) brood mass at the dispersal stage of development and ( B ) his lifespan after reproduction.

Similarly, we repeated this analysis again, but only considering the observations of brood mass weight for brood masses from which male offspring emerged.

Our study describes a new type of maternal effect in dung beetles, which is likely to operate through egg or brood mass composition.

At this stage, pairs were not allowed to start building brood masses, as they were only provided with approximately 5 ml of cow dung to feed on, which is not enough to build brood masses.

Next, we repeated this analysis, but only considering the observations of brood masses from which adult offspring emerged successfully.

After one week, we sieved breeding chambers and retrieved the brood masses produced by females of all experimental groups.

During the provisioning period of one week, females produced on average 19.2 (SD = 3.2, range = 7 27, n = 80 females) brood masses each, and the combined weight of brood masses produced by each female averaged 68.95 mg (SD = 14.77 mg, range 24.58 - 99.19 mg, n = 1,537 brood masses).

In fact, Onthophagus taurus larvae develop completely isolated from conspecifics inside enclosed brood masses, and are therefore probably unable to assess cues related to adult population density.