The phrase "a number of mating" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It could be used in a context discussing various instances or types of mating behaviors or processes, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "The researchers observed a number of mating rituals among the species during the breeding season."
Alternatives: "several instances of mating" or "various types of mating".
However, when females are randomly assigned a number of mates (1 or 5) within the same population, multiply-mated nests consistently produce more offspring relative to singly-mated nests across a wide range of s values.
Both estimates of polyandry (number of alleles, and maximum likelihood number of mating partners), were consistent with a smaller number of mating partners in androchrome females [ 36] Figure 2, although the estimate for maximum likelihood number of mating partners per morph type should be interpreted with caution since it is based on a small sample size of 3 individuals.
While we found a strong correlation between the number of mating events and swarm size, male mating success did not increase with increasing aggregation size; hence our results are inconsistent with the female preference model.
For all the mating partners a female had during the receptive period of her conceptive cycle, mating success of each mating partner was calculated as the number of mating series a male was involved in divided by the total number of mating series the female was involved in.
We examined whether exposure to field-collected Microphallus eggs increased the number of mating pairs formed and the number of mating partners per individual P. antipodarum.
We used linear mixed models to examine how the treatments affected the number of mating pairs formed and the number of mating partners per female and per male.
In a number of polygynous (mating of one male with more than one female) and promiscuous species, adult females outnumber adult males, sometimes by a factor of five or more.
Females can encounter a number of potential mates, either sequentially or simultaneously, before making a mate choice decision.
