Sentence examples for reproducing when from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, this behavioural shift occurs as spiders are reproducing, when spiders can most afford the costs of reduced prey capture and would most benefit from enhanced protection.

The secret of the animal's success, the researchers conclude, is that black-footed ferrets do most of their reproducing when they are about a year old, much younger than most other mammals do--thus fueling rapid population growth.

Therefore, we have added fish condition as an additional dimension in the reaction norm, realizing that animals should not start reproducing when their physiological state (condition) is below a certain critical level (McNamara and Houston 1996).

It was hypothesized that plants would be capable of growing and reproducing when fed amino acids, but those amino acids would contribute relatively little to plant growth and reproduction compared to mineral sources of nitrate.

This change in the genetic code is then reproduced when the cells again divide.

Oysters like warm water-they reproduce when it reaches 70 degrees.

As noted elsewhere in this issue, crucial brain functions occur in sleep that cannot be reproduced when we are awake.

"They reproduce when you cover em in water!" 120th over: South Africa 448-9 (Pollock 37, Ntini 5) More runs from Pollock, as South Africa sneak towards 450.

The majority of "statistically significant" results documented in medical journals also cannot be reproduced when another experimenter seeks to validate the relationships that they describe.

Individuals of many small species reproduce when only a few months old and rarely live more than one to a few years.

Such a mechanism would have a distinct evolutionary advantage: it would enable the organism to postpone reproduction when food was scarce, living longer to reproduce when conditions later improved.