nonreproductive

nonreproductive

(ˌnɒnˌriːprəˈdʌktɪv)
adj
(Biology) not reproductive, not involving reproduction
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Is the mechanism unique to postpartum women, or might brexanolone also be effective in nonreproductive depressions in women and men?
The ban would be in place while more stringent standards for the technology were developed, and the technology, Crispr, could still be used for other research or for treating disease by editing nonreproductive cells.
The sexual maturation and reproduction of crustaceans are very demanding processes for energy and nutrients (NCR, 2011), and thus, dietary requirements are generally higher in mature adults than in nonreproductive adults or juveniles (Wouters et al., 2001).
The climacteric is a transitional period between the women reproductive and nonreproductive phase.
We compared these values between seasons (reproductive and nonreproductive) within sexes and between sexes, using the Mann-Whitney U-Test (Love et al.
First, the (female) pill separated heterosexuality from reproduction, rendering obsolete the rationale that originally justified the hetero- versus homosexual schematic as an opposition between normal reproductive and pathological nonreproductive sexualities.
In particular, it has been demonstrated that ER[alpha] switches off the secretory activity of the epididymal corpus both in nonreproductive period and after estrogen treatment; ER[beta] expression does not undergo any changes remaining always constitutively expressed, as observed in the liver [20].
Barboza & Bowyer (2001) assumed that gastro-centric hypothesis could explain sexual segregation according to the difference of seasonal metabolism of energy and protein among nonreproductive female, reproductive female and male reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
Estimates of egg production, by TL and age, by using the maturity ogive created with the traditional interpretation and the ogive created with the revised interpretation were compared to obtain the percentage of reduction in egg production attributed to nonreproductive adult females during the spawning season by year.
The largest colony was 151 individuals, and many barns were used only by males, sometimes with a few nonreproductive females present.
thysanodes (10 lactating females, one pregnant female, one nonreproductive female, one adult male, and one young of the year).

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