Sentence examples for egg morph from inspiring English sources

They proliferate from a single egg, morph into at least 260 different types and spontaneously organize into a perfectly integrated system of organs and tissues.

However, in Taiwan and eastern Manchuria, only the blue egg morph has been found in the vinous-throated parrotbill [35].

Finally, the existence of a cuckoo egg morph resembling Fringilla eggs has been well documented [20], [22], [25], [35], [36].

One possible explanation is that the pale blue egg may be a vanishing egg morph that was once optimal.

In the latter study, the primary egg morph at the aggregation site was verified by genetic analysis as little tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus.

A cuckoo egg was significantly more likely to be found in a host nest of the corresponding egg morph, rather than in a 'wrong' one (19/24 vs. 5/24; χ2 = 8.17, df = 1, P = 0.004).

Moksnes, A. & Røskaft, E. Egg morphs and host preference in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) - an analysis of cuckoo and host eggs from European museum collections.

In Europe, 15 20 host-specific egg morphs are recognized, although cuckoo eggs have been found in the nests of more than 100 different host species2.

Chris Burden made a golden bronze form that looks like a big egg morphing into a smooth clam shell, a hand-size sculpture with a sharp edge that arose from an attempt to make a functional knife.

Parrotbill eggs were polymorphic with an uneven distribution of egg morphs.

These analyses clearly indicate that results from avian visual modelling agree well with classification of host egg morphs based on human vision.