Sentence examples for by mating with a from inspiring English sources

Sunndal Ram Circle is a ram circle for the Norwegian White Sheep breed and consisted of 21 sheep farmers in 2007 and 2008 who cooperated with progeny testing of 28 ram lambs (868 matings) and elite matings by mating with a total of 280 ewes in 2007 [ 20].

Explaining why Exelon has not invested more aggressively in new-energy technologies like windmills and solar cells, Mr. Rowe deadpanned: "A dinosaur cannot save itself from extinction by mating with a rodent".

Even when harassed, large females still lay about four more eggs than small females, notes Long, so though a determined male may be acting against the best interests of his species in the long run, he passes on more of his own genes by mating with a big female.

Females do benefit by mating with a larger male, as it has been shown that larger males can raise more offspring to independence, are better at chasing predators that might attack offspring, and are better at competing for breeding sites.

Optimal mate choice involves a tradeoff between the cost of selecting a mate and the benefit gained by mating with a preferred partner.

Hence, by mating with a highly ornamented male, a female assures that her offspring inherits from their father the genes that allow him to function despite the ornament's handicap.

The 9 female chimaeras generated from 16g2 ES cell blastocyst injections were tested for germline transmission by mating with an albino male.

Haploid spores eventually re-establish diploid lines, either by mating with their own mitotic daughter cells after switching mating type (haplo-selfing), by mating with another spore created by the same meiotic event (intra-tetrad mating) or, more rarely, by mating with an unrelated individual (outcrossing) (Knop, 2006).

Consequently, female primates probably benefit greatly by mating with all males in a group as a means to confuse paternity and decrease the risk of infanticide (van Noordwijk and van Schaik 2000).

Females can reduce infanticide by their mating behavior through polyandry, by mating with multiple partners during a single reproductive event (Hrdy 1979).

Similarly, it has been suggested that homozygous females have the most to gain by mating with heterozygous males (for a review see [ 49]).