Sentence examples for brood years from inspiring English sources

As most individuals mature at age 4, these brood years represent four generations of adults.

Approximately equal amounts of DNA from 96 unrelated individuals from the NCCCWA 2005 and 2006 brood years [ 22] was pooled prior digestion with HaeIII.

Pedigree reconstruction based on 11 highly polymorphic DNA microsatellite loci was conducted using more than 3000 individuals, and lifetime reproductive success of two parental brood years was quantified.

The majority of the population produced no or few offspring in both brood years, while some individuals produced a large number of offspring.

We included baseline collection genetic data on wild steelhead in analyses with both methods, consisting of the unmarked adults returning in brood years 1996, 1997, and 1998.

In the Nushagak District fishery, age composition, and thus length frequency, can change dramatically from year to year due to ocean conditions and the strength of different brood years, which can affect the vulnerability curves and size-selectivity.

In a field study near Cooma in southern New South Wales, fledglings were observed to disperse from the natal territory after four to six weeks for a single brood year, and in less than a week on both occasions in a pair which raised two broods in the season.

Different regions are on different emergence schedules with the "brood" year designated by sequential Roman numerals.

Estimated L50 increased after the 1985 brood year, while it had decreased before the 1985 brood year (Fig. 4).

Average reproductive success in all three groups was higher for the 2006 brood year than the 2007 brood year (Table 1).

However, a similar temporal trend in L50, that is, decreasing before the 1985 brood year and increasing after the 1985 brood year, was observed (P < 0.001 for the interaction term of β3, rp in GLM equation (5), the same sign of β3, rp among river populations in both periods, plus before the 1985 brood year and minus after the 1985 brood year).