Sentence examples for majority of offspring from inspiring English sources

The vast majority of offspring die either before hatching or in their wingless "hopper" stage.

Reproductive skew within groups is high, with the large dominant pair siring the majority of offspring [21], [33], [37] [38], [46], [47].

Sperm motility has been shown to be important as a determinant of male reproductive success in the domestic fowl where, in competitive contexts (keeping the same number of sperm for each male), males showing better sperm motility sired the majority of offspring [32].

Regions where the majority of offspring showed a recombination were considered as indicative of a recombination in the template offspring.

After converting aligned read counts to genotype calls, the majority of offspring (88/96) were successfully genotyped at over 90% of the putative SNPs discovered in the parents.

In addition, as the MBRs were founded in the 1960s, the majority of offspring have yet to enter higher risk age-group.

The new technique by a team at Imperial College London involves injecting mosquitoes with a gene that causes the vast majority of their offspring to be male, leading to an eventual dramatic decline in population within six generations as females disappear.

The only good thing about it - regarding congestion at least - is that the vast majority of those offspring wouldn't be driving to work in the first place.

The phenotype that was observed from mice overexpressing ErbB2 and PTP1B was insufficient mammary glandular development during pregnancy which caused the majority of the offspring to die (10% survival).

The nature of this interaction is illustrated in Figure 3. Specifically, in the 'parapatric' enclosure, where high-predation males are on average more orange than low-predation males (ANOVA F1, 25 = 30.51, p<0.001) and sired the majority of the offspring, male mating success was positively related to orange colour (χ21,45  = 6.76, p = 0.009).

The majority of WILD2 offspring were euthanized upon completion of metamorphosis or at day 350.