Specifically, larval mortality is very high and positively correlated with egg size when eggs are laid on seeds of P. florida due in large part to defences on the seed coat (larvae die while trying to penetrate the seed) (Fox & Mousseau, 1996; Fox et al., 2001).
Sample text:```It is also in agreement with those of Stansley et al. (1997) who obtained high mortality in R. palustris tadpoles, exposed from the egg stage for 10 days to a total mean lead concentration of 1.670 and 0.944 mg Pb/l.```
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Sample text:```1997), fertilization in flowering plants (Digonnet et al. 1997), pollen germination, pollen tube growth (Li et al.```
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Sample text:```Estimation of overall mortality ratio (relative risk) was carried out using the random e ects model according to DerSimonian and Laird [9].```
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Sample text:```The lower abundance of fish at impacted reaches detected in our study agrees with the results of other authors, who in some cases found four times higher biomass at control reaches (Kube cka et al. 1997; Almod ovar & Nicola 1999).```
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Sample text:```Dead individuals were removed, surface sterilized with 5.2% sodium hypochlorite, rinsed twice with sterile water, and plated on potato dextrose agar to confirm that mortality was due to infection by M. anisopliae (Rosengaus et al. 1998).```
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Sample text:```It is also in agreement with those of Stansley et al. (1997) who obtained high mortality in R. palustris tadpoles, exposed from the egg stage for 10 days to a total mean lead concentration of 1.670 and 0.944 mg Pb/l.```
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Sample text:```Dead individuals were removed, surface sterilized with 5.2% sodium hypochlorite, rinsed twice with sterile water, and plated on potato dextrose agar to confirm that mortality was due to infection by M. anisopliae (Rosengaus et al. 1998).```
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Sample text:```germination stimulatory activity by germination bioassays with Striga hermonthica as previously described by Jamil et al. (2010).```
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Sample text:```We also hypothesized that variation in seed mass should decrease in populations subjected to the strongest directional selection pressure (see [29]), which in this case is more arid areas where seed mass is known to be a key determinant of fitness [35,39].```
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is the basis for ecological models and predictions of the future invasive distribution of H. axyridis (Poutsma et al. 2008; Bidinger et al. 2012).```
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Sample text:```The lower abundance of fish at impacted reaches detected in our study agrees with the results of other authors, who in some cases found four times higher biomass at control reaches (Kube cka et al. 1997; Almod ovar & Nicola 1999).```
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Sample text:```Instead of using the single fuzzless locus mutant developed mapping populations (Rong et al. 2005, 2007; Zhang et al. 2005; Guo et al. 2006; Wan et al. 2007), the common female parent line of the two F2 populations we developed combined at least two fuzzless loci (N1 and n2, and probably n3) (Turley and Kloth 2002).```
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Sample text:```It is also in agreement with those of Stansley et al. (1997) who obtained high mortality in R. palustris tadpoles, exposed from the egg stage for 10 days to a total mean lead concentration of 1.670 and 0.944 mg Pb/l.```
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Sample text:```McCartney and Lessios (2004) have suggested that E. lucunter, because it is found in high point population densities almost exclusively in a high energy narrow intertidal zone, is likely to spawn under conditions of high density of mixed sperm.```
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Sample text:```Estimation of overall mortality ratio (relative risk) was carried out using the random e ects model according to DerSimonian and Laird [9].```
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Sample text:```‚Äö√Ñ¬∂in cuticle thickness reported
 here is in agreement with other studies which show that cuticle thickness increases (e.g. Gratani and Bonito 2009; Varone and Gratani 2009) and wax formation continues (e.g. Bukovac et al. 1979; Gu√É√†lz et al. 1991; McWhorter et al. 1990) throughout leaf expansion.```
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