Sentence examples for egg type from inspiring English sources

One egg type, called amictic, is produced in the early spring.

The large egg type was significantly larger than the normal eggs, and only 1 large out of approximately 100 000 normal-sized eggs was found.

Two-way ANOVA indicates that predation rate was significantly affected by prey egg type (parasitized and unparasitized) (F1,56 = 292.86, P < 0.0001), predator stage (mature nymph and adult) (F1,56 = 31.6, P < 0.0001), and the interaction between prey egg type and predator stage (F1,56 = 7.46, P = 0.009).

This is what they have to say in the discussion section of the paper: "The overall prismatic eggshell structure and the asymmetric egg shape of the new late Cretaceous egg type Sankofa pyrenaica oogen.

A previously undescribed large egg type, measuring a mean diameter of 106.5 μm, was characterized and compared to normal eggs (82.3 μm) from a continuous culture of Acartia tonsa.

The fact that copepods hatched from large eggs were fertile indicates no chromosomal abnormalities and suggests that this egg type represents the upper tail end of eggs in a classical normal distribution of size vs. frequency.

Professional fossil hunters and paleontologists traveled to more than 100 sites worldwide, from Argentina to China, collecting a variety of dinosaur egg types and nests to help explain how eggs were laid and cared for, and what they reveal about life among these mysterious creatures.

Mike Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, points out that there weren't many kinds of dinosaurs in the area and "there are more egg types known from the region than kinds of dinosaurs".

The hypothesis that large eggs were dormant, as indicated from the relatively low hatching success of 60%, within 48 h, was rejected as no significant difference was found in egg volume-specific respiration rates or histological analysis of the chorion between the two egg types.

For this, the workers need a proximate cue to discriminate between the two egg types.

The average rejection probability of optimal cuckoo egg types was estimated using the host discrimination function.