Sentence examples for mate selection takes from inspiring English sources

The females arrive sporadically, mate selection takes place and eggs are laid.

Thus, our novel result is that a difference in fitness on the two alternative host plants is not necessary to induce assortative mating, provided that mating at the time of selection takes place on the food resource.

After migration, viability selection takes place.

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium depends on a series of features about the tested population, including, for example the sample population size, random mating, no migration, no genetic drift and no selection taking place [ 34].

Jury selection took four days.

Let natural selection take its course.

Natural selection took care of the rest.

Such conditions effectively create an artificial mating system that contrasts with the elaborate and sequential mate selection processes suspected to take place in natural swarms (Diabate and Tripet 2015).

At Tierpark Hagenbeck in Germany, long-term pair bonding and individualized mate selection were seen, with copulation most frequently taking place in water.

Apart from their appeal to pigeon fanciers, head crests are important display items in mate selection, and are thus classic "adaptations," functionally relevant structures that are taken as evidence, in the Darwinian paradigm, for natural selection having occurred.

BO plays a role in mate selection among mice, and some experiments have suggested its importance for human mate selection as well (ScienceNOW, 18 June 2004).