Sentence examples for limited mate from inspiring English sources

Taken together, these results and possible future iterations of social/sexual anticipatory conditions suggest that limited mate access causes mild AA, albeit this is far less robust than that observed with restricted food access.

Despite this, cryptic inbreeding was still expected to be found due to the known effect of limited mate choice in isolated populations [ 2].

Geitonogamous selfing (self-pollination between flowers within individuals), which is prevalent in trees, also tends to increase in large trees that produce abundant flowers and at sites with low local floral density and limited mate availability [ 17, 18].

Although this would be counterintuitive given the costs of cuckoldry for males and the potential benefits for females, it would be possible if males would have no cues to detect cuckoldry, such as would be the case with limited mate guarding (Schleicher et al. 1997) or with dense surrounding vegetation (Davies 1992).

In small populations the genetic diversity of the gene pool may be reduced further by limited mating opportunities, such as when only low numbers of adults or adult members of one sex or the other are present.

Other male moths are then attracted to the males that smell like females and try to mate with them, wasting time and effort during their limited mating period.

First, mating is in fact costly to males in terms of a significant mortality penalty and a loss of future mating opportunities due to the limited mating rate.

Males have a limited mating capacity because they can fertilize < 2 females day−1 and their reproductive life span is 10 days on average.

Another well-studied system is the eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, where limited mating among clonal lineages is hypothesized to have resulted in increased virulence, and may also have enabled this pathogenic microbe to be orally transmitted from animals to humans [59], [60].

This is largely due to the limited mating of the F0 wild-type adult females with the introduced males, as discussed in the previous subsection.

The higher thresholds in the age-structured model are largely due to the limited mating of the F0 wild-type adult females, as discussed earlier.