Sentence examples for driving mate from inspiring English sources

Second is identifying the mechanism (or sexual selection theory) driving mate choice in the system of interest.

If mate availability is limited because of low plant density and pollen limitation, reproductive assurance through selfing is often advocated as a factor driving mating system evolution, especially in weed species that colonize human-disturbed environments (Baker 1974; Kalisz et al. 2004; Elam et al. 2007; Dornier et al. 2008).

So what's really driving this mate choice?

Only 16 of them can go to the Games, but every one has already played a vital role in revitalising British fortunes, driving team-mates on to better things.

One or several locus (or loci) segregating independently of Pher [22], [24], thus seem(s) to be driving the mating success of females with males of the two pheromone races.

If sexual selection was driving multiple mating by females, we should also expect female dunnocks in monogamous groups to engage in extra-pair copulations.

Prior work has not found evidence for reinforcement or reproductive character displacement (Refrégier et al., 2010), also consistent with the general lack of selection driving assortative mating (Le Gac et al., 2007a; but see also Büker et al., 2013).

Sensory Bias models emphasize the role of sensory system variation in driving divergence in mate preferences [ 5– 9].

The main driving forces of mate choice would then be to maintain equilibrium between co-adapted genes [ 10] or alternatively, to enhance the genetic variability of offspring [ 11- 16].

"It was a bit weird to see my team-mates driving by," he smiles.

Briefly, OG2 mice carried Oct4 promoter driving GFP expression mated with 129 mice.