Sentence examples for indiscriminate mating from inspiring English sources
The second is that the ML populations had declined in vigour since last being assayed and this was reflected in reduced courtship effort; we observed equivalent mating rate because of the relatively indiscriminate mating habits of virgin females.
High assertiveness during the fertile window may be a psychological adaptation that promotes mate selectivity and safeguards against indiscriminate mate choice when conception risk is highest.
Still, the reigning paradigm in studies of reproductive behavior is that males are often indiscriminate in mating [ 3].
Thus putatively indiscriminate males can learn to avoid heterospecific courtship, and they imply that there is a cost to indiscriminate male courtship or mating.
This may explain why in some species such as Nasonia vitripennis virgin females appear to be fairly indiscriminate in mating, typically accepting the first male they encounter, and also why there have been so few studies of male and female mate preferences in parasitoids.
This, combined with the sparsity of studies which consider male mate choice (despite the clear fecundity advantages that would come with inseminating a large female) may reflect the underlying preconception (which has been subject to increasing challenge) that females are choosy and males are indiscriminate when it comes to mating.
A similar size dependence has been observed in 2 species of stalk-eyed flies, where females with large eye span show strong mate preference, whereas females with small eye span are much more indiscriminate with whom they mate (Hingle et al. 2001; Cotton, Rogers, et al. 2006).
Female guppies are thought to benefit from mating with attractive males because attractiveness itself is highly heritable and thus choosy females' sons are more likely to be attractive than are the sons of indiscriminate females [ 24].
Do not mate or use mating terms!
This result is of particular interest given that there has been a recent accumulation of evidence suggesting that even in systems traditionally described as one side mate choice, members of the other sex are often not completely indiscriminate [51] [53].
"Beatings indiscriminate.
