Sentence examples for mating behaviour of from inspiring English sources
Transgression can in principle affect any quantitative trait and has been demonstrated for morphological traits (skull morphology of cichlid fish: [ 27]), physiological traits (salt tolerance in Helianthus sunflowers: [ 28]), life history traits (flowering time in Arabidopsis: [ 29]), and behavioural traits (mating behaviour of Drosophila: [ 30]).
Video recordings of mating behaviour of the host beetles confirmed that sexual transmission is the long-sought mechanism explaining this bizarre phenomenon.
AS GENERATIONS of biology students have discovered to their morbid delight, the mating behaviour of creepy-crawlies can be bizarre.
While the exact cause of those fatalities is unknown, the migration and mating behaviour of migratory tree bats is widely discussed and is currently being researched by biologists.
This suggests that males involved in a competition will experience a rise in testosterone levels if they win, and a fall if they lose.The challenge hypothesis was first advanced to explain the mating behaviour of monogamous birds.
Similar mating behaviour of females has been reported in crayfish species Orconectes placidus [27].
Adjustment of mating behaviour to sex ratio has previously been demonstrated in e.g. guppies, Poecilia reticulata, [45], [46], in the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens (Forsgren et al. 2004), and in the water strider Aquarius remigis [47].
Parental behaviour parallels mating behaviour: males of species in which a pair bond is formed usually assist in shepherding the young.
Detailed observations of mating behaviour and molecular analyses of paternity patterns might provide useful information about the risk and outcome of sperm competition, but such data are relatively costly to obtain and therefore not available for very many species.
Social insects are likely to play a key role in developing our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of mating behaviour and post-mating changes.
The reproductive instinct of this fish comprises (for the male) territorial fighting, nest building, mating behaviour, and care of offspring at the first level of the hierarchy.
