Sentence examples for extent of the egg from inspiring English sources
– the extent of the egg surface that shows dynamic expression in the earliest stages of patterning, which appears to rule out evolution of these patterns by wholesale cell movement.
Thus, theory prescribes that the extent of egg phenotype evolution should differ significantly between the two species because, all else being equal, the ability to evolve in response to adapting cuckoos should be markedly stronger in the chaffinch.
Spores of Trychoderma pseudokoningii are also covering the surface of the paint film but at lesser extent than in the egg tempera specimens (Fig. 2b).
To quantify the extent of the defect the number of eggs laid per female was determined.
In the northern extent of its range, the eggs are laid in lumpy masses along grass, sticks, rocks, or the mucky substrate of a calm pond.
All but one of the egg batches presented had at least one egg parasitised with six egg batches parasitised completely.
No larva was observed consuming whole eggs or even parts of the egg shell.
Due to evidence that most R. aurora breeding females lays eggs within 2 weeks of each other (Licht 1971), the extent of the wetland covered, and the number of surveys conducted, the detection rate was assumed to be 100%.
