Sentence examples for form of mating from inspiring English sources

Sperm competition, a special form of mating competition that occurs in sexual species when females accept multiple mating partners over a relatively short period of time.

In his book Classified, Harry Cocks, history professor at the University of Nottingham, implies that gay apps represent a modern development of the personal ad, a form of mating that's at least a century old.

Female promiscuity and the form of mating system for a given taxon was determined from accounts in the literature [14] and coded as categorical variables.

While it may be argued that identification of species using mtCO1 is open to debate, all available biological data in the form of mating studies [17] [21] support the proposition of Dinsdale et al. [10].

Because intact asci probably don't migrate, and therefore neighboring asci are likely to be closely related (potentially descendants from the same mother cell), it is unclear whether this form of mating would impact the frequency of random mating in a population and therefore have an effect on the population genetic structure.

Such competition may include hazardous, or risk-taking behaviours as a form of mating effort e.g. physical violence (Kruger & Nesse, 2006; Williams, 1966).

Females, on the other hand, should generally have lower fitness payoffs from hazardous forms of mating effort.

Once a mate has been found and family formation has begun, individuals have lower returns to costly forms of mating effort.

Technically speaking, any form of (assortative) mating where not all individuals have the same mating success may be subsumed under the heading 'sexual selection' (as many authors do, e.g., Gourbiere 2004; Pennings et al. 2008).

Pre-mating sexual cannibalism may also be a form of mate choice, in which females kill and consume males that they estimate to be of low quality as sires [1], [5].

Evolutionary explanations for the function of orgasm tend either to see orgasm as a form of mate choice or as a by-product of the male capacity to orgasm at ejaculation.