Sentence examples for reproductively capable from inspiring English sources

For some highly endangered species there are too few reproductively capable animals to maintain adequate genetic diversity, and extraordinary measures are necessary to prevent extinction.

Successful sterilisation (or the prevention of development from juvenile life stages to reproductively capable adults) was found for seven of the nine species of bark beetles tested previously using doses of less than 100 Gy (Table 1).

With scientific estimates of fewer than 350 adult great white sharks and a significantly smaller number of reproductively capable females, this genetically distinct population is staring down extinction.

To obtain reproductively capable females, the Vangl2+/Lp males were out-crossed into the CD1 background for a maximum of two generations.

The operational sex ratio (OSR; ratio of males to females in the population that are currently reproductively capable) is inexorably linked to both sex allocation and the mating system (Emlen & Oring, 1977; Davies, 1991; Parker & Simmons, 1996; Kokko & Jennions, 2008).

Therefore, we compared males to both juvenile females and females carrying embryos in order to partition the embryonic component from the two female types, while simultaneously ensuring a comparison with reproductively capable females.

Reproductive migrations by reproductively active female lobsters were observed in all subregions.

But with enough reproductive isolation, a reproductively cohesive set of populations will diverge as a unit, becoming increasingly unique.

However, N. tetrasperma has been shown to be capable of occasional outcrossing events and its nine independent phylogenetic lineages are not perfectly reproductively isolated (Menkis et al. 2009), traits which may enhance its effective population size.

He's also reproductively happy with Cora.

Sexually and reproductively, she feels, Gropius is a better match.