Sentence examples for egg quantity and from inspiring English sources

Here, we show that correcting egg number and mean egg mass by female weight at egg laying allowed the detection of negative associations between egg quantity and quality and between egg quantity and egg care.

For instance, limited resources have been shown to impose a trade-off between egg quantity and quality, with some females investing in large clutches of light eggs and others in small clutches of heavy eggs [ 2, 5].

We also demonstrated that studying natural variation in female body weight at egg laying is of key importance to better understand female investment trade-offs, as this variation masked the trade-off between the quantity and quality of eggs (a key trade-off reported in other species, e.g. [ 6, 7, 43]) and the one between egg quantity and maternal egg care.

Although the associations between egg quantity, quality, and parental care were studied in many species [ 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14], it remains unclear if and how these three parameters simultaneously shape maternal and offspring fitness at egg hatching.

This means that women delaying child-bearing until their late 30s and 40s will still be faced with decreasing egg quantity (the number of eggs available for fertilization with each menstrual cycle) and egg quality (the number of available eggs that are genetically normal).

Women over age 35 are not only faced with sub-optimal egg quantity (the number of eggs available for fertilization), they are faced with sub-optimal egg quality (the number of eggs that are genetically normal).

According to the statement, changes in egg quality, quantity and certain hormones are not the only age-related factors that can influence fertility; as women get older, they are also at greater risk for certain disorders, which can affect fertility.

Overall, scat analysis indicated that black bears were more reliant on Pacific herring eggs in the last 2 years of the study; these greater energetic contributions coincided with greater egg quantities in comparison to 2010 and likely reflects the flexible exploitation of localized abundances of a high quality resource by bears.

Using the poor Quatsino Sound spawn in 2010 as evidence, low supratidal and intertidal zone egg quantities resulted in a weakened interaction with black bears, who instead relied on amphipods and graminoids as major dietary items.

The instructors take this loss factor into consideration when calculating egg quantities!

FSH is linked to egg quality and quantity.