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
But, while four or five-tonne males benefit from this maternal protection, female offspring do not receive the same attention.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 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
Other women desired female offspring and have received the glands of the female goat.
From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard
