Sentence examples for multiple clutches in from inspiring English sources

When females produced multiple clutches in a year, we only used the reported size of a single clutch for that species.

We induced laying of multiple clutches in order to obtain sufficient data of repeated clutches of individual females over the whole season and to mimic the field situation, where re-laying after nest predation is common (Johnston and Janiga 1995).

Approximately 600 Zebrafish embryos were collected from the London (Lon) strain in multiple clutches.

In others, multiple clutches of offspring can be produced from the sperm stored from a single mating.

If extra-territorial tadpole transport and attending multiple clutches were a major selective force in shaping orientation mechanisms, we should find that dendrobatid species lacking these traits would not perform as well in a homing task.

Attending multiple clutches could have played a major role in selecting for a high homing performance in A. femoralis males, which were found to have up to five clutches at the same time (Ursprung et al. 2011a).

For species in which reliable collection dates of multiple clutches could be ascertained (43%) there was a tendency (not statistically significant; α = 0.05) for museum clutches collected more recently to have larger values of luminance (paired t-test; t = 1.82, n = 108, P = 0.071).

Prior to our experiments, all males and females were arbitrarily kept in pairs during several months, and had already produced multiple clutches with multiple partners.

Females are known to mate only a single time in their life, and use stored sperm to fertilize multiple clutches of eggs [ 20].

The sea turtles generally nest in three- to four-year cycles, the female usually laying multiple clutches of eggs during each nesting season.

But unlike other swans, they can lay multiple clutches a year.