Sentence examples for via offspring from inspiring English sources

By contrast, among the Poor wealth class only, maternal longevity was not under direct selection through its effects via offspring survival.

In addition, we assessed moderated mediation by examining whether physical activity affected the mediational paths from parental to offspring anxiety/depression via offspring self-esteem using advanced statistical methods.

Physical activity did not moderate the associations between paternal and adolescent anxiety/depression either directly (b (SE) = −.007 (.058), p = .911) or indirectly via offspring self-esteem (b (SE) = −.014 (.039), p = .710).710

Importantly, these hypotheses are controversial because mathematical models [ 54] and experiments [ 17] suggest indirect effects via offspring fitness have trivial evolutionary effects relative to direct costs and benefits of female mating; our results add to growing evidence that indirect fitness effects can be substantial [ 55, 56].

The direct and indirect paths were significantly different (b (SE) = .628 (.039), p < .001), indicating that regular physical activity moderated the direct path between maternal and offspring anxiety/depression but not the indirect paths between maternal and offspring anxiety/depression via offspring self-esteem.

But O'Shea kept him at bay. "With Clough as manager and Todd in defence, there does seem to be a desparate attempt to rekindle Derby's glory team via their offspring," guffaws Tom Hopkins.

It was equipped with a screen about the size and shape of a paper page, and in time it sported a graphical display that eventually would become familiar via its offspring, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Macintosh screens.

Of those reporting infidelity, 7R+ individuals were cheating on romantic partners more often, which under certain circumstances could result in higher genetic fitness via greater offspring diversity as well as increased total fecundity.

However, the transgene was successfully transmitted via female offspring, and eventually we could examine transgene expression in embryonic male gonads (Fig. 1D, lane 2).

Natural selection Occurs when individuals with a heritable trait have higher fitness (via increased survival and/or offspring number) than individuals without the trait.

However, autosomal zygotic drive via a paternal effect also has been described that kills noncarrier offspring via protein packaged in the sperm and transmitted to the zygote (Seidel et al. 2008, 2011).