Sentence examples for distant maternal from inspiring English sources

In rhesus macaques, the presentation of coo calls, a vocalization uttered in prosocial contexts, elicited a stronger response in close maternal kin compared to more distant maternal kin or maternally unrelated females (Rendall et al. 1996).

Chilli con carne (something warm, a distant maternal voice told me, would be cheering).

Second, distant maternal kin may fight among themselves in effort to increase their individual rank.

To resolve cases of more distant maternal relationships, that are much less frequent in convenience samples, other approaches integrating large amounts of autosomal SNP data exist [13].

Figure  1 shows Merinos are genetically distant from maternal (BL) and terminal breeds (PD and WS), increasing the possibility that both marker-QTL LD and QTL effects differ between Merino and the other breeds.

The mitochondrial genome structure in the alloplasmic line was genetically distant from both maternal and paternal genomes.

Following Pérez-Cabal et al. (2012), we defined close relatives as sires and full sibs and distant relatives as maternal grand sires and half sibs.

The test also identified relatives on my maternal side: distant cousins in Finland, France and the United States.

However, this must be placed within the wider context of the many distant and intermediate determinants of maternal health and mortality 15 (see web extra on bmj.com).

The words that God speaks to Jacob in a lonely dream while he wanders, cast out of his maternal home to a distant family, now speak to me, as well.

Therefore, our ability to compare the conserved maternal genes across evolutionarily distant species that share common mechanisms, such as the Xenopus laevis, mouse and the bovine, will contribute by identifying functionally important genes involved in early development.