Sentence examples for maternal size from inspiring English sources

In the skink Niveoscincus metallicus, the size of ovulated eggs is unrelated to maternal size but large females produce offspring that are larger than is necessary for survival, providing evidence for facultative placentotrophy.

We treated maternal size as a fixed effect.

Indeed, the relationship between maternal size and investment may reinforce character displacement and population divergence in spadefoot toads.

Maternal size (SVL) significantly predicted egg volume (F1,14  = 6.22, P = 0.013 for a one-tailed test).

Specifically, we fit a linear mixed effect model to the data to determine if maternal size (SVL) predicted egg volume.

When controlling for period, maternal size and genotype, no relation exists between egg size and clutch size in either environment (Figure 3b).

Some may consider our selection of predictor variables incomplete as it does not include measures of paternal size, maternal weight or maternal weight gain.

Heath and Blouw (1998) reviewed phenotypic correlations between maternal body size and egg size for a variety fishes and found that such correlations are substantial (all species mean correlation = 0.392, SD = 0.307, n = 25).

Maternal body size may affect the size of the offspring due to genetic traits, but also, a small maternal body size may constrain the size of the offspring [ 32].

Larger maternal body size (correlation B) and larger size of the offspring at birth (correlation C) were associated with larger 6 year size.

In previous research [ 39], however, we found that the maternal genet size and the floral display size of neighboring genets were both positively correlated with their female reproductive success in population Y.