Sentence examples for laying is from inspiring English sources

Immediately after each transfer, the vials were checked for the number of eggs lay by each pair and were counted under stereomicroscope till the egg laying is stopped.

Egg laying is timed such that the young become independent of their parents at a time when prey populations are greatest.

The time delay between fertilization and egg deposition (that is, egg laying) is poorly documented for the majority of reptile species.

Because ceasing egg laying is in the workers' best interest as well as the queen's, no coercion is needed.

Track laying is under way on the multi-million pound rail link between the Borders and Edinburgh.

Design engineers can make an estimation of this value through the IEC 287, a standard providing a simplified formula for this type of calculation (though it underestimates the problem since it does not take into consideration how complex the underground cable laying is).

Thus, reductions in egg laying are created by dominance hierarchies.

In first approximation, egg-laying is a random point process: individual egg-laying events occur aperiodically and are sufficiently brief (<0.1 sec) that they can be treated as point events.

However, it is clear that egg-laying is not strictly random; the time and location of egg-laying events is regulated by diverse environmental and internal factors, and under certain conditions egg-laying can be suppressed for long periods.

Once their breeding and egg-laying is done, the cicadas have nothing left to do but die, which they do more or less en masse.

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