Sentence examples for promote offspring from inspiring English sources

Thus maternal obesity and postnatal overfeeding can promote offspring obesity.

Paternally expressed imprinted genes tend to promote offspring growth by extracting nutrients from the mother during pregnancy while it is suppressed by those genes that are maternally expressed.

Another innovation is that flowers provide an arena for extended pollen-tube competition, which may promote offspring fitness by choice of superior sporophytic fathers (Mulcahy 1979; Skogsmyr and Lankinen 2002; Pannell and Labouche 2013).

It holds that paternally expressed genes will function to promote offspring growth, at the expense of maternal resources, while maternally expressed genes will limit offspring growth to provide a more even distribution of resources amongst offspring throughout the mother's reproductive lifespan.

Those profits allow them to hire and promote the offspring of senior government officials, who in turn ensure their longevity.

The maternity and child health care clinics have a good opportunity to reach the risk population for childhood obesity during a life phase when the families are motivated to make changes in their behaviour in order to promote their offspring's health.

Through their antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects (reviewed [ 61]), carotenoids can enhance female health and condition and directly promote fecundity and offspring quality [ 17- 20, 62].

That suggests that the gene normally promotes larger offspring--thanks to dad's imprinting.

Further, the experience of motherhood itself continues to influence brain functioning well after birth, shaping behavior to promote the survival of offspring.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05423.002 Sexual selection operates at the level of reproductive success to promote traits that improve offspring production (Darwin, 1871).

In the UK the National Institute for Clinical Excellence [ 10] recommend that mothers maintain a healthy weight before, during and after pregnancy to promote health in their offspring.