Sentence examples for small broods from inspiring English sources

Females reared in small broods had intermediate Bas-CORT levels as adults, regardless of foraging conditions in adulthood, while females reared in large broods showed higher Bas-CORT levels in hard foraging conditions and lower levels in easy foraging conditions.

L1 upshift experiments revealed that mex-1 worms produced either small broods or were sterile (Table 4).

Although at every nest visit there are more rivals for the carried prey items, nestlings of species with large broods do not always experiences lower survival than those of species with small broods.

Verhulst et al [20] used brood size manipulation to affect conditions experienced during the first 34 days of development in zebra finches which led to a significant increase of metabolic rate in adults from larger broods compared to those from small broods.

They showed that birds from large broods, i.e. of poor early condition, copied the sequential order of song elements less accurately than birds from small broods.

Hamilton [ 72] proposed that sexual selection on male mating opportunities favored winged males in NPFW species with small broods and wingless males in species with large broods.

The pictures reveal a small, brooding man, standing in counterpoint to Rodgers, whose easy-looking smile doesn't hint at a fear of planes, heights, illness.

While I adored children and romanticized the idea of one day raising a small brood dressed in elaborate get-ups of my own design, I wanted a family on my terms: happily married with enough money to live well.

Granted, both are small, homegrown operations, not franchises, and have hipster cred: Blue Collar comes from Gavin Compton and Jeff Slagg, who run nearby Miller's Tavern; Lake Trout is owned by Joe Carroll, whose small brood of neighborhood establishments includes barbecue standout Fette Sau, and by Matt Lang, Fette Sau's former grillmaster.

In our positive gene set, C53A3.2 and skr-8 have been previously shown to have a synthetic small brood size phenotype with daf-18, an indication of poor germ line proliferation [34], [55].

The remaining three worms were fertile but had small brood sizes and hatching rates relative to wild-type worms that were similar to the first generation worms (Table 2).