Sentence examples for mating advantage of from inspiring English sources

For illustration, we calculated a measure of mating advantage of large spores from the proportion of matings with large spores from the total number of mated trials.

The equivalent calculation of the mating advantage of large spores for trials in which the small spore was the focal cell is (again one-third of the matings are uninformative): Both formulae give an expected mating advantage of large spores between 0 and 1 (stochastic variation in the proportion of each type of mating could give values that exceed these bounds).

Our favored interpretation is that of a focal cell choosing between potential partners, which are signaling for the focal cell's attention, in which case the mating advantage of more viable cells could be considered a measure of "mate preference".

We can interpret the behavior as competition between potential partners that are signaling for the focal cell's attention, in which case the mating advantage of more viable cells could be considered as measure of competitive mating ability, such as "attractiveness".

Thus, the bias toward matings with optimally sized cells is due to either a competitive mating advantage of more viable cells or a preference for more viable partners, or both.

For example, color pattern of the heterozygous morph of the African butterfly Danaus chrysippus increased the mating advantage of males (Smith 1981).

More specifically, Nettle proposed that the mating advantages of schizotypy are mediated by increased verbal and artistic creativity, a proposition that has gained empirical support in a number of subsequent studies [16] [18].

A first male to mate advantage (relative to the time of ovulation) is a general pattern of paternity in mammals [ 26].

A value of greater than 0.5 indicates that large spores have a mating advantage over small spores, a value of smaller than 0.5 indicates a mating advantage for small spores over large spores.

Similarly, males of 2 species of sulphur butterflies that were heterozygous at 3 alloenzyme loci had mating advantage (Watt et al. 1986).

Also, heterozygous brine shrimp had mating advantage (Mitton 1997).