Sentence examples for gestation longevity from inspiring English sources
Thus, differences in many animal and plant characteristics, such as the sizes of young, duration of developmental periods (e.g., gestation, longevity), or patterns and sizes of tree leaves, are related to physical size constraints.
Traditionally, biological times (gestation period, longevity) are proposed to scale to body mass M as M0.25.
Using fibroblast cells from these species we have examined the relationship between SAC fidelity and maximum longevity, adult weight, time of female fertility, gestation length and postnatal growth rate.
Or was this just a freak longevity that happened to be observed, rather than a typical gestation?
Ambient temperature during gestation has also been observed to affect sex ratio at birth and longevity of males in a Northern European population (Catalano et al. 2008), with mechanisms that are not clear.
Maximum longevity, with the exception of human longevity, adult weight, female sexual maturity, gestation length, and postnatal growth rate were all from the AnAge database [ 22] (see Table 1).
There is a robust correlation between the integrity of the SAC and body size, but poor correlation with longevity and parameters of species development (i.e., time of female fertility, gestation length, and postnatal growth rate).
A recent study showed that pregnant sows had elevated oxidative stress during late gestation and lactation [ 2], which was responsible for impaired milk production, reproductive performance, and finally longevity of sows [ 3– 5].
We discuss the extraordinary long gestation period of this small rodent and postulate that the long gestation is beneficial to both the eusocial structure and longevity.
