Sentence examples for attractive preference from inspiring English sources

It will be interesting to investigate whether Gr66a neurons in the legs and the pharynx express identical or distinct subsets of taste receptors beyond the core co-receptor complex, and if different combinations of Gr66a and co-receptors determine whether a particular leg or pharynx neuron is wired into the aversive or attractive preference pathways, respectively.

MDI queens elicited a stronger retinue than SDI queens in natural colony conditions, and their mandibular gland extracts were more attractive in preference assays with caged worker bees.

Neither male attractiveness nor female preference for attractive males responded significantly to direct selection (Table 2).

In the partitioned-aquaria trials, male attractiveness and female preference for attractive males were measured as described above for selection.

These results indicate that there may be a fecundity cost associated with male attractiveness and female preference for attractive males.

Survival did not differ significantly between the selection treatments (one-way ANOVA F3,4 = 0.98, P = 0.492), and does not appear to have responded indirectly to selection on either male attractiveness or female preference for attractive males.

Our findings that neither male attractiveness nor female preference for attractive males responded significantly to three generations of selection (direct or indirect) have important implications for the evolution of mate choice by indirect selection.

This suggests that men either know what (heterosexual) women find attractive, or that preference functions for performance-mediated attractiveness are to some degree independent of sex.

Regardless of the adaptation effect on the orientation preference (attractive vs. repulsive), the modulation of firing rate are measured for three orientations of interest: (1) the new preferred orientation (2) the control preferred orientation (3) the baseline level corresponding to flank orientations.

This suggests that MDI queen mandibular gland extracts have additional compounds that synergize with 9-ODA and 9-HDA to make these extracts more attractive in a preference assay and that the relative proportions of the entire gland chemical profile affect the retinue response.

Similarly, the attractive egg-laying preference could simply be a result of females adapting and reducing their aversive response to bitter-tasting lobeline over time.