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This places the translational machinery in a nonreproductive mode.

The entire group, including nonreproductive adults, which are usually older siblings to that year's pups, collaborates to catch enough fish for the young.

The last generation of the summer enters into a nonreproductive phase known as diapause, which may last seven months or more.

Both reproductive and nonreproductive effects in aquatic reptiles and amphibians have been reported.

The DNA of an individual is the same in each and every somatic (nonreproductive) cell.

Nonreproductive cloning, or therapeutic cloning, however, is simply a process to create genetically compatible cells.

A law prohibiting nonreproductive cloning is inappropriate.

To our knowledge, this study is the first report of reproductive and nonreproductive responses to short photoperiod in adult, unmanipulated rats.

The young are initially cautious, but begin to exhibit the full range of nonreproductive adult behavior within about four weeks of emerging from the burrow.

Nonreproductive workers of the colony 'police', that is, selectively destroy worker-laid eggs, but don't attack reproductive workers.

She has argued that origins of nonreproductive females in social wasps involves mutualism rather than only kin selection or parental manipulation.

Some Phlaeothripidae form eusocial groups similar to ant colonies, with reproductive queens and nonreproductive soldier castes.

We measured the total reproduction of 20 females of Mesocricetus auratus, their running activity and quantified their nonreproductive behavior three times during their first year.

In addition, on sites in Wisconsin and Minnesota, the number of 1st flight oviposition sites on nonreproductive and reproductive wild lupine was similar.

A. Homosexual coupling and various other kinds of nonreproductive sexual behavior have been observed in both sexes and in many species of animals, from apes to beetles.

First, some authors have shown that the argument that haplodiploid inheritance, characteristic of the Hymenoptera, creates a strong selection pressure towards nonreproductive castes is mathematically flawed.

In structure, the organisms of this group are ovoid and have a holdfast, called the stalk, at the nonreproductive end that helps them to attach to each other during budding.

A queen can direct the evolution and maintenance of nonreproductive castes of offspring through parental manipulation with the use of pheromones or assertion of behavioral dominance.

Wild groups usually consist of three to ten individuals, with one reproductively active female, one or more reproductive males, and several nonreproductive helpers that can be either male or female.

The presence of nonreproductive helpers appears to be the most important factor in determining which mating system is used, as ecological and environmental variability have not been found to have a significant impact.

In black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) habitat, however, there were no significant differences between male and female home ranges or between home ranges of reproductive and nonreproductive adult males.

Atta ants are eusocial, meaning they exhibit cooperative care for immature individuals, have an overlap of at least two generations in same society, and exist as both reproductive and nonreproductive individuals.