(4) Unmated females will preferentially oviposit in seeds occupied by other unmated females (a) to reduce possible competition over food in the seed, as unmated females are likely to have fewer offspring than mated females, and (b) to speed up their waiting time for a mate.
This does not necessarily preclude significant variation among individual seeds; in peas, for example, the seeds occupying the central region of the pod are the largest, probably as the result of competition for nutrients between developing ovules on the placenta.
(3) Given the choice between fresh (i.e. intact, unoccupied seeds) and occupied seeds, unmated females that seek mating opportunities will preferentially oviposit in the latter, whereas mated females should inhabit unoccupied seeds to reduce offspring competition over food.
Watson, in contrast, kept 31st seed Daniela Hantuchova occupied for two hours and 34 minutes before going down 7-5 3-6 6-3 thethe Slovakian.
Development from shoot emergence to seed dispersal occupied the first 5 months of the calendar year for both species (Fig. 1).
Before embryo differentiation and expansion, liquid endosperm in a closure of testa (or seed coat) occupies a developing seed (Johnson-Flanagan et al. 1992).
Clem, with her prize-winning documentary on the palm, makes up just one stem of the branching Gardener clan, and The Seed Collectors occupies itself by skimming easily from one to the next, landing on each and sucking out their darkest neuroses as efficiently as a literary mosquito.
Secondly, if seed individuals occupy similar positions in the network, then a greater chance exists that their recruitment trees will collide, i.e., that multiple respondents will attempt to recruit the same peer.
Although a fresh patch offers less competition for food and more oviposition sites, occupied seeds offer the females instant mates.
