Sentence examples for reproduction schedule from inspiring English sources
Our analysis of reproductive investment thus takes into account females' reproduction schedule and females that did not reproduce during one or both periods.
The most common reproduction schedule was that of three lambings in two years system, with three breeding periods per year.
According to life-history theory, adaptation under our experimental evolution conditions of 4-day discrete and non-overlapping generations is expected to shift reproduction schedules towards earlier ages [ 47, 48].
A shift in reproductive schedule towards earlier reproduction would be indicative of adaptation in our imposed life-cycle, while longevity is expected to evolve as a response to the harm that males impinge on hermaphrodites upon mating.
Although these worms compensated for lost early reproduction by increasing late-life reproductive output (c.f., [ 77]), the shifted reproductive schedules severely diminished relative fitness of worms in high-PQ treatments.
Reproduction is scheduled in the first week of April.
A within-species comparison of breeding schedules and egg temperature of uni- and biparental parents might give insight into the evolutionary effects of different ecological conditions on breeding systems of sandpipers and avian reproduction in general.
We therefore posited that the variation between the RILs was due to both differences in the reproductive capacity of the lines (the effect of LINE), possibly manifest either by variation in their lifetime fecundities or their temporal schedule of reproduction, and by differences in how the reproductive capacity of the lines altered in response to density (the effect of TIME*LINE [ASSAY]).
The evolution of the age schedule of reproduction is of central concern to life-history theory.
For example adult lifespan, lifetime fecundity, the schedule of reproduction and body size all vary as a consequence of food quantity and quality [ 20, 21].
It has been suggested they could alter their life-history traits to bring forward their schedule of reproduction (Koella et al. 2009a,b 2009b).
