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Normally, the animals, which live about 6 years, don't breed before age 2. But when Jones and colleagues gauged the age and reproductive status of devils--via tooth erosion and sex organ development--they found evidence for breeding several months to a year earlier than normal at four out of five sites studied.
However, inter-specific evidence for breeding density effects remains poor [ 2, 5, 8, 50].
It has been, however, much more difficult to detect evidence for breeding density shaping the direction or intensity of selection on female morphological traits, including body size (Fleming and Gross 1994; Seamons et al. 2007).
As for the alleged evidence for breeding and molting of Loricifera within the basin, an alternative explanation is that the reducing conditions of the permanently anoxic sediments can preserve, for a long time, tissues and organs of dead organisms to the point that the oocytes of some specimens may erroneously appear healthy under light microscopy.
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The evidence suggests that these movements were not for breeding or feeding purposes, and we hypothesize that they might be physiologically adaptive.
It used to be believed that each pair builds two nests, one for breeding and one for roosting; however, recent surveys have found no evidence of this, with all nests in the colony being used for breeding.
Banham Poultry, based at Attleborough in Norfolk, said: "Birds at our other farms appear healthy and there is no evidence of any spread of infection". It said the farm was used for breeding and did not produce meat.
Instead, she was prepared for breeding.
Globalisation is widely faulted for breeding populism.
Whales come here each year for breeding.
This is the place most liked by mosquitoes for breeding.
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