female offspring
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The research team also found that the exposed female offspring showed exaggerated digging and hyperactivity in adulthood; LR mitigated these effects.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
According to the company’s plans, female offspring produced by the modified insects die, causing the population to collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Virgin birth, which usually results in female offspring, is thought to be triggered in several situations.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
In contrast, researchers found no evidence that raising female offspring — who achieve complete independence from their parent and do not demand continued feeding as adults — reduce a mother’s future reproductive chances.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Hardly any animal has been rendered so highly polygamous as the English race-horse, and we shall immediately see that his male and female offspring are almost exactly equal in number.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
