"Sex ratios respond to maternal condition, and nutrition is one of the big factors".
Both between and within landscapes, maternal condition had no effect on offspring dispersal.
Miyata et al. suggested that treatment should be chosen according to the severity of inflammation, the stage of pregnancy, maternal condition, and fetal condition.
Identifying therapies that are safest for the fetus, yet do not compromise effective treatment of the maternal condition, is essential but challenging.
Due to the limited evidence on the use of adjuvant therapy during pregnancy, tumors causing neurological symptoms and seizures must be treated, in order to stabilize the maternal condition and enable a safe birth.
This finding was subsequently used to increase the number of female chicks by deliberately manipulating maternal condition.
Preliminary analyses showed that biomass at conception and maternal age had nonlinear effects on maternal condition.
Thus, present evidence suggests that maternal condition has no consistent impact on birth sex ratios, but leaves open the possibility that maternal condition might influence the extent of investment in male and female offspring.
Cameron's results suggest that more consistent results might be obtained with more accurate measures of maternal condition.
Visual assessments of maternal condition were made four times per month using calibrated photographs to score different body parts.
It is possible that with larger samples that generate greater statistical power, or more accurate measures of maternal condition, more consistent patterns would emerge.
