Sentence examples for over offspring from inspiring English sources

Female earwigs may care for their eggs, and even after they have hatched as nymphs will continue to watch over offspring until their second molt.

Nannies do not have independence (or else they wouldn't be working for those who pay them), nor do they enjoy immunity from parental concern over offspring.

We suggest two factors that may contribute to the absence of a role for aggression in the context of conflict over offspring care.

We find that children of active smokers, women who quit smoking when they found they were pregnant and women who were exposed only to secondary smoke during their pregnancy all had similar, significant increases in T-lymphocyte HPRT M f over offspring of women who reported neither active nor secondary exposure.

We have analyzed over 300 offspring at weaning from interbreeding of heterozygote CSRNP-1 mice and obtained exact mendelian ratios and no evidence of post-natal lethality.

Evidently the nanny state - and the concomitant trend among parents to over-protect offspring - has alarmingly diminished the younger generation's self-reliance.

Or maybe it was because I longed for the power only a mother can wield over her offspring.

A major issue was whether the master had to allow the slave to marry and what rights the owner had over slave offspring.

We cannot know, in any specific case, what will happen, only that for each trait, over many offspring, about half would have inherited the one, and the other half the other, of the given parent's elements.

The results, published in tomorrow's issue of Nature, offer the first evidence that pipefish exert an additional, post-mating control over their offspring and that their pouches play a role in this sneaky selection.

Parents have always worried about their children accessing inappropriate material and images on the web, but the rise of smartphones and tablets means parents have even less control over their offspring's online activities.