Sentence examples for reproductive basis from inspiring English sources

Intuitively, the forager-RGPH, like the OGPH, is difficult to test directly using extant social bees because the hypothesized reproductive basis of their advance division of labor has been acted upon by colony-level selection.

The hypothesis was build from our cumulative data on the pollen-hoarding syndrome [2], [3], [27] and was inspired by the Ovarian Ground Plan Hypothesis (OGPH) of West-Eberhard, which suggests that evolution of a division of labor between within-nest and foraging tasks has a reproductive basis in social insects [1], [28].

The basis reproductive number, R 0, is a very useful quantity in mathematical analysis and epidemiological application.

However, Ho et al. (1974) did not provide any supporting data, did not state upon what basis reproductive ability was assessed, and did not indicate how many roosters were evaluated.

Next, we put forth a number of testable propositions contributing to a growing body of research on the structural basis of the reproductive rights–reproductive health relationship.

Although the genetic basis for reproductive effort in males and in females was very similar, the strong genetic correlations between reproductive effort and longevity within each sex were of opposite sign, suggesting that the links between reproductive effort and longevity are likely to be complex.

Unfortunately, except for the literature on the genetic basis of reproductive senescence in human males [e.g., 51], relatively few genes and proteins that underlie male reproductive senescence have been identified and functionally evaluated.

She said it was an ideological attack on science and that it was "pretty shocking that leading Tory politicians are lining up to attack women's reproductive rights on the basis of no support in the medical community.

She said: "Pretty shocking that leading Tory politicians are lining up to attack women's reproductive rights on the basis of no support in the medical community"." A source close to Hunt said: "It wasn't planned – he was asked a question and he gave an answer".

Animals who time their mating or breeding to coincide with favourable seasons (such as spring) may depend on melatonin production as a kind of biological clock that regulates their reproductive cycles on the basis of the length of the solar day.

The aim of this study was to develop a biological model to predict reproductive state on the basis of milk progesterone measures.