Sentence examples for maternal interests from inspiring English sources

Researchers have exploited this phenomenon to explore tension between paternal and maternal interests.

Paternal interests are theoretically served by maximizing fetal growth, and maternal interests by managing investment in current and future offspring, but whether paternal and maternal influences act on different components of overall size is unknown.

In the special case of interactions among full sisters (Table 2, column 1), it is the patrigenes that actually match the maternal interests because the patrigenes are equally related to all sisters (including self), as is the mother.

The parental conflict hypothesis postulates that genomic imprinting in mammals evolved because of conflicting maternal and paternal interests in the allocation of maternal resources to the offspring with paternally epressed genes enhancing and maternally epressed genes limiting feto-placental growth.

Mel becomes a mentor and a surrogate father, while Sid takes a maternal interest in the kids.

Ms. DiGiacomo got to know them both, taking a particular maternal interest in one, Henry Wachtel.

Rowling's strong maternal interest in her protagonist – pursued legally in copyright infringement cases – suggests that any further Potter stories will come from her or no one.

While fathers lose potential reproductive success if the offspring and mother die through obstructed labor, the penalty in lifetime reproductive success is much greater for the mother if she dies in childbirth, creating further tension between maternal and paternal interests in fetal growth.

This theme was built on four categories that describe different aspects of the challenges obstetricians faced in management of complicated pregnancies, including the balancing of maternal health interests and fetal health interests, as is inevitably required in obstetric practice.

The maternal-fetal interests model does not offer adequate guidance for such structurally determined choices surrounding pregnancy and warrants further discussion and research.

Since 'near-miss' is somewhat more frequent than maternal deaths, interest has grown in using it as an indicator of the quality of obstetric care [ 5].