Sentence examples for flexible mating from inspiring English sources

Dunnocks are noted for an exceptionally flexible mating and territorial system that reflects food density.

Several rodent species have flexible mating systems that can vary between monogamy, polygyny and promiscuity.

In many animal species, plastic or flexible mating strategies exist, and plasticity in mating behaviours is usually an adaptive response to varying natural and social contexts [12] [14].

Evidence for flexible mating decisions is growing, but we do not understand how environmental variation is incorporated into mate sampling strategies.

Scientists have observed versions of this phenomenon — called flexible mate choice — in other animals.

Southern Lapwings have been described as pair breeders (monogamous; Ligon and Burt 2004), as well as cooperative breeders (Walters and Walters 1980) and more recently as having a flexible genetic mating system and variable breeding social structure (Saracura et al. 2008).

Wingless males stay lifelong in their natal nests, but the behaviour of winged males is more flexible: they mate within the nest early during their adult lives, but later disperse and search for female sexuals outside [7], [12], [13].

Here, we present X-MATE, a system for flexible and comprehensive mapping of all deep-sequencing datasets.

The F-type T4SS encode long, flexible pili that allow donors to mate in liquid and on solid media with equal efficiencies [ 53].

Copepods have sequential mate choice using a threshold rule (whether the mating criterion is fixed or flexible is not solved yet) and therefore couple incubations can be used for mate choice trials [33].

A positive correlation between these two measures of responsiveness would argue against mating behaviour being entirely phenotypically flexible (i.e. being fully context-dependent).