Sentence examples for smaller offspring from inspiring English sources

Smaller Daphnia tend to carry fewer and/or smaller offspring [ 47- 49].

Drought also generally leads to smaller offspring, who would in turn have smaller offspring.

When they mated, they had fewer and smaller offspring.

Mr. Kolar, formerly at Sign of the Dove and its smaller offspring, Little Dove, lends credibility to the kitchen.

Louise Bourgeois's giant spider sculptures -- a mother over 30 feet high and two smaller offspring -- play tricks with scale and give the site's central space the fakeness of a film set, perhaps one for a Japanese monster movie.

The leading explanation is that this gives an evolutionary edge: Fathers activate genes that produce larger offspring, which are more likely to survive; mothers turn on genes for smaller offspring, which consume less energy and leave mothers better able to reproduce in the future.

Women who were excluded from the analysis had similar demographic characteristics compared with those who were included, although they had shorter gestation duration and smaller offsprings (Additional file 1: Table S1).

Behind them four small offspring hurry to keep up.

The production of numerous small offspring followed by exponential population growth is the defining characteristic of r-selected species.

Relative to the mother, giant pandas produce the smallest offspring of any placental mammal (about 1/800 of the mother's weight).

Another advantage was an oviparous reproduction system, with many small offspring being born, but only a few surviving to reach giant adulthood.