Sentence examples for local mates from inspiring English sources

In order to test whether fish are more likely to produce offspring with local mates, compared to mates in geographically distant locations within the Thames catchment, isolation by distance analysis was performed using the Mantel test [ 65] in GenAlEx 6 [ 58].

Given that our main focus is sexual selection it is worth emphasising that total competition for mates (as well as variance in male mating success) may increase even while local mate competition decreases.

Clearly the mating systems of many gregarious and quasi-gregarious parasitoids, formed by the patchy distributions of their hosts, will lead to local mating patches and interactions among kin (we have already discussed the inbreeding that results from these local mating patches).

Furthermore, the association of infection status with locally adapted alleles and local male traits creates positive selection for females with local mate preference, both because of the advantages of local adapted genotypes and of mating with compatible cytotype males.

Because increased geographical isolation can impede gene flow among forest fragments, and because decreased population size and tree density may reduce the number of local mating partners, this can be expected to lower the opportunity to trees for outcrossing, and to result in increased inbreeding, negatively impacting the viability of fragmented tree populations.

Thus, male-biased dispersal due to inbreeding avoidance, LRC or local mate competition between males may occur in these species.

Although local mating would lead to inbreeding, it would not create the replicated associations (at two different reefs) of genotypes and habitats that we observed.

Additionally, some studies have detected FBD in polygynous species where local mate competition is known to be intense [Table 2 in 18].

Here, we investigated whether winged males of C. obscurior can adaptively adjust the timing of their dispersal from the natal nest to local mating opportunities.

Three non-mutually exclusive factors have been proposed to explain the association between mating systems and sex-biased dispersal: inbreeding avoidance, local resource competition (LRC), and local mate competition [reviewed in 9].

Gu and Dorn [23] observed males fighting each other over access to females at their natal patch and described the occurrence of partial local mate competition in C. glomerata.