Sentence examples for during the first five generations from inspiring English sources

The populations evolved smaller body size during the first five generations, and the smaller fish became less fertile because they produced fewer eggs.

We used linear mixed models to test the effect of the use of infochemicals on the mortality due to the Allee effect, mortality due to competition, and larval survival in the first five generations (during the population expansion).

FIRST 3 GENERATIONS (FIRST-3GEN): sib-testing was performed only during the first three generations Gen0-Gen2.

It is a very diversified thought, for there are as many bodies of doctrine in Hasidism as there were creative spirits during the first three generations of the movement.

The rational for using LHM-bw-W as the female control population during the first two generations of backcrossing was that it also had experienced the tetracycline treatment.

In simulations with K>100 bees, the risk of extinction per generation for a population founded by one mated female declined rapidly over time, such that populations which managed to survive and increase in size during the first two generations had a negligible risk of extinction (Figure S1B), echoing the observations of several experimental studies [31], [51].

The effective population size was extremely low during the first two generations, reflecting the strong selection.

One surprising recent result is large declines in fitness of steelhead during the first two generations of hatchery culture.

Consequently, there was no obvious bias attributable to nonlethals accumulated during the first six generations of mutagenic growth.

It has been assumed that a total of 32 generations have passed since the start of the admixture event, with mixing only during the first seven generations.

We assumed that changes in the average value of the traits during the first four generations could result from either plastic responses (e.g. individual phenotypic plasticity, parental and grand-parental effects) or evolutionary responses to selection.