Sentence examples for reproductive selection from inspiring English sources

SUNDAY REVIEW, PAGE 11 ROSS DOUTHAT Is the reproductive selection by some parents today entirely different from the eugenics of an earlier era?

Is this sort of "liberal eugenics," in which the agents of reproductive selection are parents rather than the state, entirely different from the eugenics of Fisher's era, which forced sterilization on unwilling men and women?

In the article, three initial cases, based on outcomes and duties, are given for and against genetic engineering in general and reproductive selection, genetic testing, savior siblings, cloning, stem cell research, and gene therapies in particular.

Thus, at first glance, one may be tempted to conclude that results indicate reproductive selection against immigrants in newly established populations, along the lines of previous studies [ 77, 83, 109].

As semelparity is considered to be an adaptation to low adult survival [ 7, 17, 35], where conditions are not conducive to prolonged adult survival (i.e. late reproduction may risk loss of reproductive potential) selection for more complete or extreme semelparity will be favoured over life-histories where adults survive to exhibit SREs.

As the choice of high-quality larval developmental sites has profound effects on offspring survival and thus on the parent's reproductive success, selection should therefore drive the evolution of parental behaviours that assess the quality of breeding sites in order to maximize offspring growth and survival.

"As long as some people die before reproducing or reaching reproductive age, selection is likely to be acting," geneticist Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, U.K., told Science in 2005.

For recessively acting variants which increase susceptibility to disease without necessarily completely compromising reproductive fitness, selection pressures will exert even less effect on allele frequency.

Since this is a study of reproductive outcome, selection bias would only impact on the results if it was related to pregnancy outcome.

If different bacteria, or different strains of the same bacteria, cause reproductive incompatibility, selection could increase the frequency of all of them and lead to multiple infections as observed for Wolbachia in the ants Formica exsecta [ 26] and Acromyrmex [ 29].

Lastly, in addition to being a valuable tool in reproductive ecology, selection experiments like this can also be a powerful tool to unveil the genetic basis of adaptation to both natural and human environments (Ross-Ibarra et al. 2007), highlighting phenotypic, quantitative genetic and genomic differences between domesticated and wild populations (Harfouche et al. 2012).