Sentence examples for foster offspring from inspiring English sources
Surviving pups from Magel2-null dams were of normal size and weight at weaning, suggesting intact ability of Magel2-null female mice to lactate and foster offspring despite low rates of survival of the pups.
However, prions will readily attend and feed chicks in cross-fostering experiments, as in the present study, suggesting that parents do not distinguish between their own and foster offspring.
Nonetheless, NS-specific Txnrd1 knockout mice survived and could even generate and foster viable offspring.
Male and female knockout mice were fertile, and females could also foster their offspring normally (data not shown).
In cross-fostering the offspring of Asic3+/+ and Asic3−/− dams, the total activity of juvenile social behaviors was reversed.
We further tested the ASIC3-dependent effect in maternal care on social development by cross-fostering the offspring of Asic3+/+ and Asic3−/− dam at the day of birth.
Altered methylation was reversed by cross-fostering the offspring after birth or by infusion of a histone deacetylase inhibitor [ 9].
FVB/NJ females, (which are very good mothers), were used to foster all newborn offspring in an effort to increase the frequency of animals that survive to weaning.
To increase survival of the KD dams and offspring, fostering of P2.5 pups (from both KD and SD litters) by SD-foster dams was carried out.
To ameliorate this effect we fostered out aviary offspring to wild house sparrows breeding at a local field site at the University of Idaho's Sheep Center in Moscow, ID (46°43'N 116°59'W).
