Sentence examples for mate advantage from inspiring English sources

I would suggest that it's a kind of mate advantage," he said.

A first male to mate advantage (relative to the time of ovulation) is a general pattern of paternity in mammals [ 26].

For illustration, we calculated a measure of mating advantage of large spores from the proportion of matings with large spores from the total number of mated trials.

Thus, the bias toward matings with optimally sized cells is due to either a competitive mating advantage of more viable cells or a preference for more viable partners, or both.

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

But he acknowledged that the company had not done the critical experiments to determine whether the fish were larger at sexual maturity or had a mating advantage.

In addition, Dr. Muir said the genetically engineered fish he is now studying, the tilapia, could be three times larger than normal tilapia at sexual maturity, providing a possible mating advantage.

Specifically, divergent selection between hosts does not occur on color phenotypes because melanistic T. cristinae are cryptic on the stems of both host species, are resistant to a fungal pathogen, and have a mating advantage.

This trait serves as a badge of status in both sexes, larger stripes leading to higher success in agonistic interactions between conspecifics and better access to resources e.g. [32] [34], as well as providing a mating advantage to males [35], [36].

In contrast, the differential crypsis hypothesis assumes a differential degree of crypsis among polymorphic morphs; therefore, trade-offs between the degree of crypsis and other fitness components, such as mating advantage or thermoregulation ability [13], are necessary to maintain the polymorphism.

Also, heterozygous brine shrimp had mating advantage (Mitton 1997).