Sentence examples for egg characteristics from inspiring English sources

The limits and interrelationships of galliform families have been determined on the basis of general body proportions, muscle and bone configurations, plumage, clutch size and egg characteristics, the appearance of the young, and some aspects of behaviour.

Juvenile or adult fish can alter their behaviour and rely on an innate and adaptive immune system to avoid/counteract pathogens, while fish embryos have to depend on egg characteristics and may be partly protected by their developing immune system that is building up from a certain age on.

In this study, we investigated whether disruptive selection may be affecting egg characteristics in ashy-throated parrotbills (Paradoxornis alphonsianus) and their parasite (cuckoo) in south-western China.

Finally, we performed linear regression to examine if female physiological status (body condition, plasma carotenoid and lysozyme) predicted egg characteristics (mean mass, yolk carotenoid and albumen lysozyme per clutch).

Egg characteristics were measured at day 295 to 300, and included egg weight, Haugh unit, egg index, percentage of yolk, percentage of albumen and shell strength [ 22].

Egg diapause characteristics and viability of the Italian parental population (Salem, OR) and the F2 reciprocal hybrid lines were tested at three temperatures (2, 4, and 6°C).

50 This gene was also found to show pleiotropic effects on bone and egg production characteristics, once again using a combination of QTL analysis and gene expression correlations between the traits and genes involved.

It features large black spots with a black band on the tip of its white wings and lays its eggs in characteristic clusters.

One is an enzyme known as cystathionine beta synthase (CBS), which stimulates the production of hydrogen sulphide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their characteristic whiff.

Separate keys are given for secondary sexual characteristics, eggs, tadpoles, families, and species.

This type of egg deposition is characteristic of several groups of tree frogs, family Hylidae, in the American tropics—one of which, Smilisca baudinii, is known to lay more than 3,000 eggs.