Sentence examples for reproductive efforts from inspiring English sources
The central argument is that measuring oxidative damage in relation to unmanipulated reproductive effort (especially when resources are not limiting) is unlikely to reveal a substantial cost to reproduction since individuals can alter their reproductive output to balance current with future reproductive efforts.
It will come as no surprise then that sexual selection has driven (in part or wholly) the evolution of huge numbers of these kinds of features and behaviours as organisms fight to maximise their reproductive efforts.
Rudgers decided to test whether the fungus was skewing the grass's reproductive efforts in a similar way.
Those hoping to conceive by focusing their reproductive efforts on certain days of the month might end up doing the same.
Such behavior is atypical for social mammals, in which it is common for an alpha female to sabotage the reproductive efforts of others.
Such behaviour is maximally altruistic: sterile workers obviously do not leave any offspring of their own so have personal fitness of zero but their actions greatly assist the reproductive efforts of the queen.
Trade-offs between current reproductive effort and future reproduction and survival are fundamental to the evolutionary biology of ageing.
This is consistent with the positive pleiotropy between male and female reproduction: good genes for reproductive effort are expressed in both sexes and at all ages.
Under conditions where normal semelparous reproduction may result in lost reproductive effort, deferral of reproductive effort to a second reproductive bout can realize fitness gains [ 11, 19, 22, 23, 30, 31].
Some mature perennials may have high annual allocation to reproduction but only because of low reproductive effort during establishment years: lifetime reproductive effort is always lower for perennials than annuals.
Thus, greater adult mortality should select for less growth and a greater reproductive effort (proportional allocation to current reproduction).
