Sentence examples for mates we found from inspiring English sources

Although we initially planned to use brothers for each pair of candidate mates, we found that they differed more in morphology than did non-relatives and used non-related males to form candidate mate pairs instead.

First, in four cases of re-pairing (following predation of mates), we found no evidence that females tried to repel new immigrant males.

Finally, if males mated once were re-paired after 1 h with either the same or a novel (but still recently mated) female, we found that they mated for significantly longer with the latter.

Therefore, against a background of natural mating behaviour, we found no detectable fertility benefits associated with a single mating.

Consistent with the hypothesis that optimally sized spores become ready to mate sooner, we found a greater frequency of assortative matings between optimally sized cells on both media.

Whereas wild-type cells exposed continuously to α-factor form multiple mating projections, we found that none of the AIs alone could induce multiple projections.

Instead, in the mating period we found that grooming performed by males to females was correlated with the frequency of copulations but not with grooming received by males from females (Video S2).

For mating tactics we found that, relative telencephalon, cerebellum and dorsal medulla sizes were larger in maturing males compared to anadromous males and females (Table  2; Fig.  1).

In double mating conditions, we found evidence for a sperm release mechanism that specifically affects SR males and may explain the greater propensity of females to polyandry.

In gryllids females ultimately decide whether or not to mate, yet we found males were selective by regulating courtship effort intensity toward the preferred (conspecific) females.

When we assigned GO terms to the genes up-regulated after infection in both virgin and mated females, we found enrichment of multiple GO terms relating to immune response and stress response (Table 1).