Sentence examples for mated to multiple from inspiring English sources

Note that queens are always mated to multiple drones, both with natural mating and artificial insemination.

Patrigenes will be more selected to promote their own patriline if there is a single queen mated to multiple males.

A queen is mated to multiple drones that descend from a group of drone-producing queens (1b).

As expected, we found that the genotype distributions of workers within colonies always were consistent with the presence of a single queen mated to multiple males.

The converse case, a single male mated to multiple females, did not seem relevant enough to discuss for haplodiploid social insects, but might be relevant to some cooperatively breeding vertebrates.

Studies of male hybrid sterility rarely consider sperm count or the result of mating to multiple females, so it is likely that reduced sperm count may occur in hybrid males from species pairs currently described as lacking a level of hybrid spermatogenic sterility.

When females mate to multiple males, the last male to mate fathers the majority of progeny.

On the other hand, females might also increase their reproductive success by allocating successive matings to multiple mating partners [ 42, 43].

If, on the other hand, groups are headed by a male and multiple females mated to him, the predictions would be reversed.

We know that male animals seek to mate with multiple females to increase their chances of reproductive success.

Females often choose to mate with multiple males despite being able to obtain sufficient sperm to fertilize their eggs from a single male.