Sentence examples for current reproduction from inspiring English sources

Thus, greater adult mortality should select for less growth and a greater reproductive effort (proportional allocation to current reproduction).

Both genders of uninfected snails fit into the patterns observed for the parasitic castrator species, allocating as much to growth and to current reproduction as expected given their probability of reproductive death (castration by trematode parasites).

Furthermore, our previous experimental work shows that burying beetles practice reproductive restraint, holding back resources from current reproduction so as to prolong the lifespan, presumably to increase the chance of breeding again (Cotter et al., 2011).

One of the costs associated with investment into current reproduction is decelerated somatic growth, which reduces future reproductive output (Roff 1983; Lester et al. 2004).

Current reproduction may reduce future survival for the parent and hence reduce the reproductive chances in the future (Bell 1980; Lessells 1991; Forbes 1993; Carey and Gruenfelder 1997).

The findings suggest that adults favour maintenance of cellular homeostasis, and physiological equilibrium over current reproduction, and that the costs induced by both stressors, flea infestation and increased brood size, are carried by the offspring.

However, other tradeoffs are possible, for instance: current reproduction-survival, current reproduction-future reproduction, and reproduction-defense [3], [55].

Significant negative β1 values would be indicative of incurred costs of previous reproduction on current reproductive output.

Trade-offs between current reproductive effort and future reproduction and survival are fundamental to the evolutionary biology of ageing.

Despite using only the two electrojet borders and the cross-meridian current, good reproduction of the input data is demonstrated, so that we can conclude that the simple modeling parameters represent a large part of the variation in physical parameters during the events studied.

The small number of ε2 subjects together with the many cultural and socioeconomic factors affecting current human reproduction makes it difficult to say if this effect is indeed real and relevant in the model used.