Sentence examples for chances of fertilization from inspiring English sources

Four years later they made their first attempt at implanting human embryos in women but were unsuccessful because of the hormone regimens they employed, which encouraged the release of multiple eggs (to improve the chances of fertilization) but also resulted in menstruation at the time of implantation.

To maximize the chances of fertilization and survival of offspring, fish species time reproduction to occur at optimal times.

The book "inspired me to learn more about the compounds that plant and fungi produce to protect themselves from pests and competitors and to increase their chances of fertilization and dispersal," he says.

Segregation distortion has been frequently observed at the gl1 locus in indica x glabrous japonica crosses and changes in the segregation ratio for gl1 have been reportedly caused by the unequal chances of fertilization of the female gametes (Sato et al.[1990]).[1990]

IVF sometimes includes ICSI to improve the chances of fertilization when the infertility is on the male end, because it eliminates reliance on sperm motility.

Transfer of high sperm numbers at the time of copulation increases the chances of fertilization because of the considerable sperm losses along the female tract, with only a few sperm reaching the site of fertilization in mammals [17].

We interpret this as an adaptation to a shortage of males, because a long life increases the chance of fertilization and/or of finding a high quality partner.

If the chance of fertilization is low, the sperm may be directly injected into the egg.

In animals, passage of sperm through the female reproductive tract is regulated to maximize the chance of fertilization (Hunter, 1981).

Inside a hermaphrodite, sperm are stored in the two structures called spermathecae and fight for positions near the maturing oocytes, where they will have the best chance of fertilization.

The clinical objective was to identify compounds that increase the number of functional sperm in the vicinity of the oocyte, based on the hypothesis that this increase would lead to a higher chance of fertilization, thus achieving an increase in live birth rate (see Publicover and Barratt, 2011).