reproductive output
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreproductiveandoutput
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reproductive
adjective
uk/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.t̬ɪv/
relating to the process ...
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output
noun[U]
uk/ˈaʊt.pʊt/us/ˈaʊt.pʊt/
an amount of something produced by a person, machine, factory, ...
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Thereproductiveoutputfor each breeding female is assumed to be 10 viable eggs.
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Where an adult died during the experimental period, she was assumed to have contributed to thereproductiveoutputfor half of the experimental period.
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Being maternally inherited, selection favours symbiont strains which increase the survival andreproductiveoutputof female hosts.
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Animals with long infection pre-patent periods tended to support lower total parasitereproductiveoutput.
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The totalreproductiveoutputof some snail populations can thus be severely depressed by trematodes.
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The standard model assumes females continue to reproduce as fast as possible with theirreproductiveoutputcompletely unaffected by the birth of an affected son.
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Reproductiveoutputof the parasite is determined by rates of growth and mortality during development on the host.
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Effective mutualistic ants, however, can improve thereproductiveoutputof their partners and ultimately change the relative abundance of the host plant in the community.
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Most primary infections (84 %) persisted less than 12 months and there was a significant positive relationship between early parasite development and subsequentreproductiveoutput.
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Adults resulting from the five larval diets were used to evaluate thereproductiveoutputof females.
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This variation in male ejaculate size may be responsible for mate choice as well as thereproductiveoutput.
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Age-specific measures for average femalereproductiveoutputwere collected from two replicate cohorts for each of the lines.
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It might be feasible that the transfer of plasmids does increase thereproductiveoutputto larger values than the reproductive output of a non-senescent individual.
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The fecundity of a rat's infection is thereproductiveoutputdivided by the number of parasitic females in the rat.
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The slope of a regression ofreproductiveoutputagainst inoculating dose will be one in the absence of any density-dependent effects onreproductiveoutput.
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This constraint is especially evident in the case of females, because it is difficult to assessreproductiveoutputof one female in a group.
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