0 (in animals and people) the condition of being unable to produce young, or (in plants) the condition of being unable to produce plants or crops --
They complained about the emotional sterility of their marriages.
1 the condition of being free from anything that can cause disease --
2 the condition of being unable to produce children or young animals, or the condition of being unable to produce plants or crops: --
They often lead to developmental failure or sterility.
Therefore, we use data from different chromosomes to compare the physical length of introgressions which result in male sterility.
However, considering estimated levels of sterility and fecundability, this does not seem very likely.
Another activity is the evaluation of certain medical devices, in particular, those requiring sterility.
Declining venereal disease reduces involuntary sterility as well as fetal loss.
In addition, all three pairs show ' cryptic ' sterility of either hybrid females or pure-species females mated to heterospecific males.
They might just not have tested their reproductive capacity and thus there may be some latent sterility or sub-fecundity among them.
Strikingly, hybrid sterility required having a particular allele at four separate loci - a four-locus epistatic interaction !