Fecundity

Fecundity selection
The forces acting to cause one genotype to be more fertile than another genotype.
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fecundity The physical ability to reproduce.
feedback loops A sequence of events in which the level of a hormone or related endocrine product circulating in the blood leads to alterations in the rate of production and release of other hormones from ...
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Fecundity Selection
The production of a large number of mature offspring is a measure of fitness. I stress mature because only they can pass these traits on to another generation. Some ways to do this: ...
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Fecundity. The number of eggs produced per female per unit time (often: per spawning season)
Foliose coral. A coral whose skeletal form approximates that of a broad, flattened plate ...
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The fecundity of both females (e.g. how many eggs a female bird produces) and males (e.g. giant sperm in certain species of Drosophila[10]) can be limited (fecundity selection).
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The relative reproductive success of a genotype as measured by survival; fecundity or other life history parameters. See Darwinian fitness and natural selection.
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There was a shift in fecundity to younger age classes in the fast-growing strain. Longevity of the fast-growing strain was 28% shorter than longevity in the parental strain.
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It can be seen as the extent to which an individual successfully passes on its genes to the next generation. It has two components: survival (viability) and reproductive success (fecundity).
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Lizards that act out the courtship ritual have greater fecundity than those kept in isolation due to the increase in hormones that accompanies the fake sex.
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