Sentence examples for complex male from inspiring English sources

Satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, are an excellent species for testing this hypothesis because their complex male courtship, including use of decorations of certain colours, suggests a selective advantage to individuals with superior cognitive abilities.

It was nice to see two interesting, complex male characters talk about relationships in a real way.

A summary of all traits and generalization of our results is shown in Figure 9, which should facilitate tracking of single traits within the complex male patterns.

Mating decisions are based on assessment of complex male sexual signals; the most important is the red throat, a carotenoid based signal that contrasts strongly with males' blue body and blue eye colouration [ 59, 60].

Combined with the ongoing whole-genome sequencing, these experiments will further enhance our efforts to unravel the network of genetic factors that cooperatively maintain the highly complex male ornaments of the guppy.

Each snail was weighed and measured (shell height and aperture width) and tissues (ganglia, gonad-digestive complex, male penis and sheath, female albumin glands) were dissected out and snap frozen on liquid nitrogen for RNA extractions.

Such frat-chat makes Waldman's point — perhaps the point of all comedies of ­manners — that behind even the most complex male-female interactions are the same old boy-girl banalities.

An autosomal copy of this transgene, p[ w +mC GM roX1 MS2-6], rescues X-localization of a key member of the MSL complex, Male-Specific Lethal 1 (MSL1), in roX1 roX2Δ males.

Moreover, in relation to the demonstrated overwintering ability of the virus in northern Europe, small numbers of adult Culicoides spp. were captured in animal housing during the winter period (November 25, 2006, to March 9, 2007) (i.e., females of C. obsoletus complex, males of C. obsoletus, C. scoticus, and C. dewulfi) (25 ).

Dosage compensation in Drosophila is mediated by a male-specific ribonucleoprotein complex (the male-specific lethal or MSL complex) that binds to a GA-rich sequence motif (the MSL recognition motif) at a number of chromatin entry sites on the X chromosome (Alekseyenko et al., 2008; Straub et al., 2008).

Among these is Alan Ball, who created "Six Feet Under" (the drama that produced David Fisher, the first truly complex gay male character on TV) and "True Blood" (with its dicey vampirism-as-gay-rights metaphor).