Sentence examples for offspring life from inspiring English sources

In this study, we investigated the consequences of maternal age and maternal CR on offspring life span and fecundity in the rotifer B. manjavacas.

For instance, in an understorey herb, Campanula americana, maternal light environment affects offspring life history in ways that should increase their fitness under similar light conditions [ 22, 23].

A recent developmental study on rhesus macaques, investigating mother-offspring associations from birth to sexual maturation, showed a five times higher probability of maternal aggression toward sons, in relation to daughters, during the first year of offspring life (L. Kulik et al. unpubl. data).

Our demonstration that maternal CCR also increases offspring life span is significant because the beneficial effects of CCR and IF may act through overlapping, but not identical pathways in rotifers, as is the case in other animals (Greer et al., 2007; Greer & Brunet, 2009; Cleary & Grossmann, 2011; Dogan et al., 2011; Gribble & Mark Welch, 2013; Gribble et al. 2014).

One hypothesis to explain such an association is that it would allow the parents to increase the time spent with their offspring in the safest developmental stage (assuming that offspring life is hazardous and that larger eggs develop slower; safe-harbor hypothesis [ 9]).

Genes under selection from co-adaptation would ensure the functional integrity of the parent-offspring interaction over the lifetime of individuals, while other loci under selection from conflict may lead to the evolutionary exaggeration of the signals due to a competitive advantage during the offspring life-stage.

However, emerging evidence suggests that the propensity to develop obesity and type 2 diabetes is influenced by both the pre and postnatal environment which shapes developmental growth trajectories throughout the offsprings' life [ 4].

Maybe you think that accelerated growth will shorten this offspring's life.

They are worried that bad exam results will doom their offspring's life chances, and are increasingly distrustful of schools.

Rare is the work of a psychologist in the late 20th century who focuses not on the neuron but on the nuance — how a parent's subtle, despairing glances can ripple outward for decades, leaving marks in that offspring's life like the rings you see in a tree.

As things stand now, cicada emergences are so tightly timed, with the bulk of the insects emerging within a span of a few weeks, that any cicada that tries to break the pattern is simply taking her offspring's life into her own hands.