21 If LMP-based gestational age was unknown or inconsistent, we adopted the clinical maturity estimate based on the Dubowitz method, 22 which was performed on all newborns.
This is well below the size-at-maturity estimate for females at ∼420 cm [55].
Assuming circumferential growth rates of Osprey Reef N. pompilius to be constant from hatching to maturity, an estimated maturation time of 14.5 and 16.5 years for females and males respectively is achieved.
Growth from hatching to maturity is estimated from mean growth rates of immature recaptured Nautilus.
Indeed, it may be necessary to quantify transcript abundance of more than one male- and female-specific gene in order to correct for maturity in estimating sex-ratio.
Tree size at onset of maturity was estimated for Swietenia as the inflection point of a modified logistic regression function describing reproductive status as a function of dbh [48].
Length at maturity was estimated for females only, as macroscopic staging of male gonads in such small fish is not very reliable.
Assuming that it takes five years for Rhagada to reach sexual maturity, as estimated for R. capensis[ 14], this gives T = 24,000 generations of contact.
