Sentence examples for mated as a from inspiring English sources

A ewe that is mated as a juvenile (producing a lamb at 1 year of age) will produce an average of only 0.6 lambs to weaning, compared to an average of 1.2 lambs in adult ewes.

Our data set, therefore, comprised reciprocating pairs, that is, both individuals having mated as a male and a female.

In the experiment where we looked at fecundity upon mating, one focal in the "Donate" treatment mated as a female, and was therefore excluded from the analyses.

Male longevity was also analyzed in a univariate GLM with treatment (virgin or mated) as a fixed factor and maternal grandmother as a random factor.

The outputs from the DGRP analysis have been compared to studies carried out on an advanced intercross population derived from 40 DGRP lines randomly mated as a large population size for over 70 generations (Flyland, Huang et al. 2012).

Studying female hamsters and even arachnids mating as a way to glean insight into women's sexual psyches.

Subsequently, these shrimps can mate as a female during post-molt and as a male during inter-molt [24].

Each adult could mate as a female, male, or both.

Simultaneous hermaphrodites that copulate unilaterally, for instance, make a decision to mate as a male or female.

More importantly, we show experimentally that the motivation to mate as a male is lower when the same partner is encountered than when a novel partner is encountered.

Surgery involves lesioning a branch of the penial nerve (NP1) in snails and removes the motivation to mate as a male (see text for details).