Sentence examples for mated at least from inspiring English sources

We separately examined the number of matings and courtship events observed from the third to the seventh observation rounds, when virtually all females were expected to have mated at least once.

Among those females who killed a potential mate before mating and who also mated at least once during the experiment (20 out of 24 cannibalistic females), mated females showed a 3.4× higher rate of pre-mating sexual cannibalism than virgins (Wilcoxon matched-pairs test, Z = 3.2, P = 0.0015).

While all male snails mated at least once, some females were never observed in a mating pair.

These conditions are expected to result in most, but not necessarily all, flies having mated at least once [ 4].

Only 23.9% (37 out of 155) of males mated at least 6 times and therefore 76.1% (118 out of 155) of males failed to mate with all 6 virgin females provided.

All females without sperm in the spermatheca had mated at least once (they were collected while mating), and thus were classified as females in the first mating, while females with sperm were classified as females in second or subsequent matings.

With most bird species, both parents are needed to bring up the young, so most birds stay together after mating, at least until after the breeding season.

In one study at Barro Colorado Island, all males in the group were observed mating at least once over a one-year period.

Males were mated to tester females in consecutive weeks; vasectomized males were mated to at least three tester females prior to mating with labeled females.

All males mated with at least one female.

Each female was mated to at least two independent males to ensure male infertility was not the cause.