Sentence examples for mate with males from inspiring English sources

At the start of this process, symbiont-infected females do mate with males, and fertilized eggs resulting from these matings develop into normal, sexually produced daughters.

It could be females fighting over the right to mate with males.

When Dr. Bohnert let them mate with males, however, the clumps disappeared from the eggs.

Put simply, females prefer to mate with males that have more elaborate songs.

Weaning is abrupt as females stop nursing their young in order to mate with males.

So the females may have had to mate with males in the chimpanzee lineage in order to produce viable descendants.

Occasionally they mate with males and produce fertile eggs but then return to their original same-sex partners.

This suggests that our female ancestors were more likely to mate with males who could physically dominate other males.

"Females are choosing to mate with males who are in poorer physical condition," Dr. Buchanan said, with potential effects on the number and survivability of offspring.

Female house finches prefer to mate with males with the reddest feathers, but dull-colored males make themselves more appealing by acting more social before mating season, according to a study in the September issue of the American Naturalist.

But he also noted that neither study tested all of scientists' proposed explanations, like monogamy's benefits in lowering the risk of sexually transmitted diseases or the possibility that females chose to mate with males who repeatedly brought them food.