Sentences with phrase «reproductive maturity»

Because the fish can grow to 800 pounds, it takes a long time to reach reproductive maturity.

Many organisms with a low expectation of survival in the wild experience rapid decline once they have reached reproductive maturity.

Bigger dog breeds tend to reach reproductive maturity at slower paces than their tinier counterparts.

My hypothesis is that in most men, the adaptation is a preference for similarly - aged mates — adjusted for sex differences in the ages at which reproductive maturity are reached — rather than an adaptation to prefer nubility.

But there was no difference in growth rate, shell length, or time to reproductive maturity between asexual females with three genomic copies and those with four, ruling out that theory.

The asexual females, regardless of the number of genomic copies they possessed, grew faster and reached reproductive maturity quicker than the sexual females, the researchers discovered.

«They reach reproductive maturity within a year, and that means that a lot of generations are produced very quickly,» explains Goodman.

Once reproductive maturity has been reached, the competitive advantage to signal the presence of damaged cells (in youth) is gradually deteriorating.

Smaller dogs also tend to reach skeletal and reproductive maturity more quickly in their first years; whereas, larger dogs tend to lag a bit behind.

Bitches reach sexual and reproductive maturity with their first heat.

«Small dogs reach skeletal and reproductive maturity sooner than larger breeds.

With Redwood Creek coho salmon on the brink of disappearing, biologists launched a last - ditch attempt to save them: harvesting local fish, raising them to reproductive maturity at a hatchery, and then returning them to the wild.

Once these tapeworms reach reproductive maturity, they start laying eggs or proglottids that eventually become larvae.

Instead, it's the snails» sexuality that creates an advantage: Asexual females, the study found, grew twice as fast during the late juvenile phase and reached reproductive maturity 30 percent faster than female snails that mated with males.

They studied two distinct age groups in families of snails — reproductive maturity and old age.

The more salmon a male eats, the larger his skull grows; the more fish a female eats, the earlier she'll reach reproductive maturity — and the more cubs she'll have each year.

Heartworms go through multiple larval stages, taking a relatively long time to reach reproductive maturity.

As the imprinted bird or animal reaches reproductive maturity, its courtship behavior is directed toward objects that resemble the imprinting object.