Sentence examples for mate preference in from inspiring English sources

Females from either control or vinclozolin F3 generation lineages prefer control lineage males over vinclozolin lineage males, whereas no altered mate preference in males was observed [ 27].

The heritability of mate preference in the wild remains a principal but unresolved question in evolutionary ecology.

Our discovery of a risk-reducing mate preference in Uca terpsichores may be explained by the high risk of predation to which females are exposed every time they leave the safety of one male's burrow and move to the next.

In conclusion, we have shown that the predicted association between food and mate preference in phytophagous insects can readily evolve given selection for food preference in allopatry, but the maintenance of reproductive isolation after secondary contact is ultimately dependent on selection acting against hybrids, and/or mating taking place at the food resource.

This finding correlates with previous data showing that early exposure to vinclozolin affects sexual selection (i.e. mate preference) in rats [10] and also alters the expression of genes related to olfactory transduction in the male amygdale, including Camk2a, Camk2d and Prkg2 [25].

Mate preference, in its simplest form, states that males compete for females and females choose between them.

Competitive mating trials were performed between pairs of populations adapted to these two environments, with the trials designed to separate the effects of local adaptation on male mating success from plasticity of female mate preferences in response to these environments.

Recently, genetic diversity has been associated with mate preferences in humans.

Studies of mate preferences in birds consist mostly of aviary trials (but see [44], [61]).

We previously found that genetic diversity predicted mate preferences in the same sample.

These results raise questions about the adequate quantification of mate preferences in wild populations.