Sentence examples for gained mating from inspiring English sources

Top scent-releasers gained mating priority (they mated first) and top groomers ensured a higher number of renewed copulations (they mated more).

One way in which male territorial success could confer a fitness advantage is if territoriality helps to gain mating opportunities, either by coercion of females through holding a food and egg-laying resource, or by serving as a sexual signal in itself.

Our results demonstrate that a trait that confers benefits to males during intrasexual competition for mates may also be used by females in intrasexual competition over resources: males use weaponry to gain mates, whereas females use weaponry to gain food.

Presumably, newly arriving females coming into an established population are generally unable to survive or gain mates, and in consequence do not contribute to the population's gene pool.

Dominant males gain mating access to females, which bear the sole responsibility for raising the young.

Optimal mate choice involves a tradeoff between the cost of selecting a mate and the benefit gained by mating with a preferred partner.

This may specifically inhibit sexual selection and the benefits gained from mating with differentiated partners in genes associated with improved immune responses [e.g. major histocompatibility (MHC) genes].

Outbred females might have the luxury of being more choosey, but on the other hand, inbred females might have more to gain by mating with heterozygous males.

Similarly, it has been suggested that homozygous females have the most to gain by mating with heterozygous males (for a review see [ 49]).

A man disciplined enough to master ballroom moves gained a mating advantage.

These findings indicate that female choice can carry significant costs, and suggest that the benefits that lek-mating females gain through mating with a preferred male may be higher than previously predicted.