With reference to swordtail fishes, it is unclear whether females have specific preferences for a trait (such as the sword) not possessed by the males or whether females are attracted to any tail modifications that are indicative of male viability or fertility in general (such as relatively large, brightly coloured, healthy, and vigorous males).
Knee points show the conflicting degree and are interesting to DMs if they do not have specific preferences [68].
His team's research, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, shows that sperm whales have specific preferences for others, in the same way we might have a favourite cousin or aunt.
These individuals may have specific preferences for types of treatment not shared by the general community.
However, individuals have specific preferences for specific flavors and drinks, leading this committee to include recommendations that encompass wide ranges for intake of different types of fluids [ 5].
There is general agreement that due to varying aims of using quality information, the different stakeholders have specific preferences for the type of quality information [ 1- 3].
Researchers often have specific preferences regarding their results, which may affect the extent to which researchers scrutinize errors in line with or contradicting their preferred results.
Contrarily, the nuclear entry of FoxO1 after serum deprivation was independent of Akt1 (Fig 2G), implicating that different isoforms of Akt may have specific preference to FoxO proteins as the substrates.
Each of them had specific preferences and gave clear and conscious assent and even sometimes dissent to various procedures," said Waligóra.
Another possible reason is that all bird species have specific habitat preferences, Dr. Chu said, and in the wild, pigeons nest on cliffs and prefer open areas.
Almost all introns start with the dinucleotide sequence GT and end AG by the "obligate" GT-AG rule [45] (with the exception of very rare GC-AG and AT-AC splicing [46], [47]) and have specific base preferences at a number of adjacent bases.
