Sentence examples for offspring quality from inspiring English sources

Offspring quality was not affected by sperm exposure to any wastewater or to sludge samples.

The effect of different docosahexaenoic acids (DHAs)/eicosapentaenoic acids (EPAs) on the reproductive performance and offspring quality of Acipenser baeri was evaluated in a 6-month trial.

The tradeoff between offspring quantity and offspring quality is at the heart of most evolutionary approaches to the fertility transition, as it is for demographers oriented towards economic explanations for this transition.

As a result, viruses may eventually reach a steady state in which offspring quality is not sacrificed for quantity, suggests Taddei, whose team reports its findings online today in PLoS Biology.

The students reliably identify the three major environmental contexts for the evolution of infanticide (lack of resources, offspring quality, uncertain parentage), thereby providing an impressive demonstration of the power of evolutionary theory to make predictions about the traits of organisms not just for infanticide but for innumerable traits in all species (see Wilson 2007, ch. 3).

New Zealand songbirds typically have very long developmental periods that might reflect intrinsic mechanisms to enhance offspring quality and longevity that may not be altered by attentiveness.

Equally relevant for guiding the choice of enforcing monogamy in captive breeding is the observation that multiply mated females usually adjust the investment they make into offspring, affecting progeny quality and survival.

Cyclical preferences could influence women to select a partner who possesses traits that may enhance her offspring's quality at times when conception is most likely and/or serve to improve partner investment when investment is important.

The contribution and relevance of good versus compatible genes in determining offspring genetic quality has been ardently debated for over a decade, but remains unclear [ 3- 12].

Analysis of variance and mixed modelling were used to investigate the effects of offspring on quality of life (HRQoL, QoL) among older adults.

We used longitudinal data for our estimates, but the results possibly reflected reverse causality and bidirectional relationships when the associations between number of offspring and quality of life were assessed.