Sentence examples for function of the courtship from inspiring English sources

To specifically assess the consequences of these mutations for the development and function of the courtship circuitry, we therefore examined males heterozygous for the fruF allele and one of our isoform-specific alleles.

Terns also use fish as part of the courtship ritual.

It's all part of the courtship of an audience.

We cannot currently quantify the relative contributions of positive selection and mutation accumulation to the observed loss of function in the courtship and reproductive systems of recent asexual lineages.

However, because no one has studied the function of courtship during male-male interactions in field crickets, we do not feel justified in excluding portions of contests where courtship occurred as it may have a heretofore-unrecognized aggressive function.

Thus, each isoform has some nonredundant contribution to courtship behavior and, presumably, the construction or function of the underlying circuitry.

It is the shotgun nature of the courtship.

Some of the courtship is graceful, almost entrancing.

Daanje (1950) proposed that many of the courtship and agonistic (aggressive/submissive) displays in birds were ritualized forms of locomotory intention movements; in other words, courtship displays were ritualized forms of an individual's intention to move.

So much of the courtship is erratic and nonsensical.

One of the courtship parameters that is modulated in this learning paradigm is courtship initiation [4].