Sentence examples for increase mating from inspiring English sources

This behavior is imposed on females by males due to dominance in size and a male desire to increase mating success.

Immunosuppression by testosterone may be the result of resource allocation among activities with competing demands e.g. resources necessary for the maintenance of the immune functions may be reallocated to the production of costly secondary sexual characters, which have higher priority to increase mating success [9].

sir-2.1 overexpression cannot increase mating potency of 3-day-old wild type (A ).

Joint lekking is thought to increase mating success and may therefore be viewed as a form of cooperation with the potential to deplete recognition cue diversity.

In that case, in order to increase mating success, one should lower one's standards and settle for a partner who is lower in attractiveness and/or social status.

Aggressive attacks, and other seemingly altruistic anti-predatory behaviours, can increase mating success of the actor [ 17], and survival of potential mates [ 18] or direct descendants [ 19] of the actor.

Subpopulations where competition is especially physical and desperate have higher testosterone levels and increased mating success, but at the cost of increased rates of prostate cancer.

The data presented here reveal that these snails can donate and receive sperm several times within 24 hours, and that they have increased mating rates in larger groups (i.e. more mating opportunities).

When the researchers disrupted either the organ or the production of the pheromone, the older mice displayed increased mating behavior toward the juveniles.

A special case of natural selection is sexual selection, which is selection for any trait that increases mating success by increasing the attractiveness of an organism to potential mates.

In contrast, our results indicate that increased mating competition leads to a decrease in sexual dimorphism in telencephalon volume.