Sentence examples for majority of larvae from inspiring English sources

One member of the neuropeptide family, Hym-248, also induced larval metamorphosis of Acropora spp. within 3 6 h, but the majority of larvae did not attach but rather floated at the water-air interface [27].

A short delay of a few years between this climate change and the upsurge of TBE incidence might be expected, as the majority of larvae feeding and acquiring virus in one year do not give rise to infected host-questing nymphs until the following year [23] and infection prevalence in the tick population could take time to build up.

By this point, the majority of larvae were positively gravitactic, swimming in a directional manner at or near the bottom of the rearing containers, with occasional pauses.

For the larvae, the control background mortality was already low (∼1%) and the majority of larvae that died in the control simulations did so from a lack of resources (food or brood care).

Once the majority of larvae had developed into the second instar, L. boulardi G486 wasps were allowed to lay eggs in the larvae during 2 h at 29°C.

The majority of larvae emerged as adults; however, in both experiments, the probability of emerging was lower for individuals exposed to V. culicis; probability of emergence for uninfected vs. infected larvae; Experiment I, 86.8% vs 80.5%; Experiment II, 91.5% vs 71.9%, respectively.

Our results indicate that populations of E. veratrifolia in the EH could only offer a declining number of aphids to the larvae of its pollinators because the majority of these larvae hatched after the flowers opened.

Majority of the larvae derived from irradiated eggs had an abnormal appearance.

Although synergistic effects of these two stressors were only apparent at temperatures above those which would be presently experienced by the majority of settling larvae on the GBR, additive effects of Cu and temperature were apparent at ecologically relevant temperatures.

Despite very similar rates of fertilization in the green and hybrid crosses, hatching rates were much lower in hybrids and produced a majority of deformed larvae that were largely unable to survive to the free-swimming stage (Table 2).

Amongst the stronger allelic combinations, lethality in itprsv35/ug3 has been well characterized; a majority of these larvae die as second instars with a slightly extended lethality profile as compared with itpr null organisms [4].