Sentence examples for the egg phase from inspiring English sources

Recent molecular studies (E. M. Fitzcharles, BAS, unpublished data) have confirmed previous observations (Everson et al. 2001) that C. gunnari lay adhesive demersal eggs that form clusters, and dispersal during the egg phase is therefore highly unlikely.

In the egg stage, the two phases mainly differed in a few specific metabolic pathways (Figure 4).

The quiescent egg phase is skipped: cyclically apomictic animals, which produce quiescent eggs when reproducing sexually, undergo live birth, and the parthenogenetic eggs of apomictic plants produce embryos precociously.

Alongside the expected upregulation of ICOS by CD4+Foxp3− Teff cells during both infections (Fig. 1A C), CD4+Foxp3+ Treg cells showed increased expression of ICOS over the first 4 weeks of H. polygyrus infection (Fig. 1D) and during the acute egg phase (weeks 6 8) of S. mansoni infection (Fig. 1E).

In a separate set of experiments, which included returning evicted artificial eggs throughout the egg evictor phase of cuckoo chicks' development, we have recently demonstrated temporary growth costs and delayed fledging owing to evicting eggs in nests of a common host of the cuckoo, the redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus.

Nest desertion by both males and females takes place at around the third day of the egg laying phase [ 44- 46] and the process of desertion appears to be rapid in our population during which either the male or the female may desert first [ 36, 45].

Cofounder Arean van Veelen, a former Konnects employee who no longer works at OfferUp day to day, calls this period their "chicken and egg" phase as they struggled to create a two-sided marketplace with a critical mass of buyers and sellers.

The egg-laying phase is initiated at a similar stage of nest building, i.e. when the parents start building the entrance tube to the nest.

Desertion takes place during the egg-laying phase.

However, timing of desertion (i.e., when to desert during the egg-laying phase) may be influenced by the risk of cuckoldry.

Ant queens in Formica polyctena and Solenopsis invicta prefer slightly higher temperatures than workers, especially during the egg-laying phase; inactive queens may prefer cooler temperatures.