We used 4-day-old individuals to test reproductive output (number of offspring or estimated number of offspring) and sexual receptivity responses to receipt of SP in the mir-279C, mir-317C and mir-279D, mir-317D hypomorphs and the mir-278D and mir-184 knockout lines, vs. their wild-type controls.
In our correlational study, we obviously cannot ascribe causal effects of such circulating carotenoid changes on offspring output per se.
The impact of maternal PUFA supply on the reproductive output of their offspring was of unanticipated extent.
The relationship of fertilization likelihood (and offspring output) versus genetic recombination is generally opposite for monoicous and dioicous bryophytes.
We tested the reproductive output (number of offspring), receptivity, and survival of miRNA-mutant and control females when continuously exposed to SP-lacking or control males throughout life.
We also performed multiple linear regressions between the age and size (SVL) of gravid females and their reproductive output (litter size and offspring size), including hatchling locomotor performance (sprint speed: see Dubey & Shine, [ 15] for methods).
Trying to find people willing or capable to take on the offspring (our outputs) of the CH model was hard and/or incredibly time consuming.
In order to identify common gene differences between all virulent and all attenuated strains, MSA was performed initially between T2Bo_vir reference and T2Bo_att to generate a list of genes with either nucleotide differences or simply the absence of any MSA output between this parent-offspring pair.
Females, by contrast, show a smaller range of reproductive output, with most having some offspring, but none having as many as the most successful males.
Frequent anthropogenic disturbance is also known to drastically alter behaviour patterns, e.g. in threatened killer whales intense boat trafficking results in a 14% decrease in the animals' foraging time [ 21], and to affect reproductive output [ 25, 27], or offspring provisionning [ 28].
