Field experiments showed that increasing the release rate by approximately five times marginally increased attractiveness but a four times reduction in the release rate significantly decreased attractiveness.
Although the results of one of these experiments was inconclusive, in the other it was found that reducing the amount of grandlure I by a factor of four did not decrease attractiveness significantly, though the ratio of males to females decreased significantly.
The decrease in rated health was associated with ratings of increased tiredness and decreased attractiveness.
In parallel, our hypothesis that florivory is linked to decreased attractiveness was not supported by our results.
Some interviewees believed that the proposal to transfer the ethics handling of all medical research to the five university RECs decreased attractiveness of research in smaller hospitals.
As these experiments revealed that cured asexual females were relatively unattractive to sexual males (see results), we evaluated if decreased attractiveness could stem from lineage divergence that is unrelated to the asexual mode of reproduction (that is, as could be observed between two sexual species).
Since this species is highly monandrous, decreased attractiveness of mated females may serve to prevent males from investing time and energy in courting unreceptive females, and may also limit female harassment, rather than being involved in preventing sperm competition (King & Bressac, 2010).
However, we identified few additional candidates, and these candidates typically were very close to previously established thresholds for other parameters further decreasing their attractiveness for comprehensive study.
The recent steep appreciation of the yen, which increases the price--thus decreasing the attractiveness--of Japanese products sold overseas, will cut deeply into profits, they say.
