Sentence examples for major offspring from inspiring English sources

In other words, we provided enough dung for females from all groups to produce more major offspring than they normally do in field conditions.

We found that mothers who were reared with other conspecifics in their pre-mating period produced major offspring that had longer horns across a wider range of body sizes than the major offspring of females that were reared in isolation in their pre-mating period.

Both these interpretations have the same effect for major males: major offspring of females from the high density pre-mating group had longer horns across a wide range of body sizes than major offspring of females from the low density pre-mating group.

As a result, female O. taurus could in theory be capable of perceiving population density and when the population density is high, responding adaptively by producing more minor males in their offspring and/or producing major offspring with longer horns.

This maternal effect probably allows females to respond to population density adaptively, preparing at least their major offspring for the level of sexual competition they will face as adults.

Our study describes a new type of maternal effect in dung beetles, which probably allows females to respond to population density adaptively, preparing at least their major offspring for the sexual competition they will face in the future.

A major issue was whether the master had to allow the slave to marry and what rights the owner had over slave offspring.

Therefore, any differences detected in the proportion of major and minor offspring produced by females from different experimental groups could reflect adaptive allocation strategies to produce offspring that are better capable to cope with the population density that they will experience, isolating effects of resource limitation for females.

"Increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity as a major determinant of offspring health during childhood and later adult life," the review states, adding that it heightened the child's risk of obesity, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and asthma.

Third, there was no information available on maternal IQ, which is described in the literature as a major predictor of offspring IQ [ 17].

In this study, we investigated the associations between combined and individual socio-occupational status and overall and specific major CAs in offspring.