Sentence examples for mating behaviour in from inspiring English sources
This gene is associated with mating behaviour in vole studies, and in human research with marital difficulties.
Long periods of light followed by short periods will induce mating behaviour in species that normally breed in autumn (e.g., goats and sheep), while spring breeders (e.g., mink) will start the reproductive process when daylight is increased.
We evaluated the effects of body size on mating behaviour in two mite species.
Complementary pairwise sexual selection and sexual isolation estimators have also been proposed to study mating behaviour in mating frequency data [ 7].
First, we have demonstrated a decrease in accessory gland size following copulation and the subsequent recovery closely mirrors mating behaviour in the field.
Despite the fact that mating behaviour in L. distinguendus has been studied by several authors before [ 12, 32, 33, 40] it was still unclear what triggers receptivity in the female.
High MVPs typically are found for species that are sedentary (e.g., trees), that do not breed until individuals are several years old, that have mating behaviours in which only a few individuals account for most of the mating, or that show high levels of inbreeding (such as elephants, California condors, and cheetahs).
Respondents reported that courtship and mating behaviours in bulls are characterized by sniffing and biting of estral cows' vulva by bulls, restlessness, racing violence, rubbing, hitting and biting of estral cow's necks by bulls, and forceful couching and mounting of cows by bulls with both facing the same direction.
To address this question, more studies are needed to characterise the swarming and mating behaviours in Cx. pipiens, in areas of sympatry between forms.
Plasticity in mating behaviour may in turn have effects on the direction and intensity of sexual selection in the stonewort habitat, which may fuel further ecotype divergence.
Differences in mating behaviour may have an important role in determining the invasiveness and introgression of non-native traits into a wild population.
