Sentence examples for maternal relatedness from inspiring English sources
Polymorphisms in this region will be identical in most maternally related individuals enabling the individuation and maternal relatedness of remains to be interpreted from a familial sample population (Table 4).
The maternal relatedness of these individuals supports inferences that this Akeldama site was a family tomb which was in use in the first-century C.E.
At the same time, however, the proportion of hostile interactions declined as maternal relatedness increased.
To avoid a biased representation of lineages by closely related individuals, donors with identical mitogenomes were inspected for maternal relatedness.
In the regression analyses, we examined the effects of three predictor variables: degree of maternal relatedness, age difference, and rank distance.
In this manuscript, we have assumed that the (convenience) population sample, containing any degree of maternal relatedness, and additional information are already defined.
A more recent study on natal dispersal in rhesus macaques suggests that both maternal and paternal relatedness influence the spatial proximity among familiar male migrants (i.e., born and grown up in the same group) that either emigrated together into a new group or moved at different times into the same non-natal group (Albers and Widdig 2013).
Usually, such higher relatedness among maternal kin than paternal kin is due to an evolutionary history of higher multiple paternity than multiple maternity within and across broods.
Genomic imprinting has evolved under conditions of higher relatedness to maternal kin compared to paternal kin, coupled with increased investment in offspring by females compared to males (Haig 2004, 2013).
Conflict of interests that involve genomic imprinting are sometimes referred to as parental antagonism, in that the bulk of such conflicts center on the divergent interests of paternally inherited and maternally inherited genes, within offspring or other individuals subject to asymmetric relatedness of paternal and maternal genes to social interactants (Haig 2013; Haig et al. 2014).
To solve for the maternal threshold, I substitute relatedness of the mother to the parties affected.
