Sentence examples for mating is due from inspiring English sources

This unusually lengthy mating is due to the physical nature of the male's erect penis, which has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length.

An alternative hypothesis is that the lack of mating is due to permanent immaturity.

Under the social homogamy model, assortative mating is due to a common environment that renders individuals with common social backgrounds more alike.

However, it is unlikely that multiple mating is due to a genetic difference since we previously found no consistency in the rate of multiple paternity within individual females when repeatedly tested (Thonhauser et al., 2013a).

Without knowledge about the cost of ejaculate donation this may suggest that all of the observed reduction in egg production after mating is due to receipt of an ejaculate, as has been proposed before [ 30].

The 25°C treatment of the sons is directly comparable to that of the fathers, and indeed residual longevity of their mates was similar in absolute terms in both data sets (Fig. 2a), as would be expected if female mortality after mating is due at least in part to wounds inflicted by males [ 42].

Therefore, we conclude part of the failure of hybrids to successfully mate is due to reduced locomotor abilities, which may relate to nuclear-mitochondrial incompatibilities (Breeuwer and Werren, 1995; Niehuis et al, 2008).

The Baggies striker will not have to report back for training until Monday, while the rest of his team-mates are due back on Friday.

The researchers captured 50 males from a booby colony 2 weeks before their mates were due to lay eggs.

Mated D. melanogaster females show a reduction in copulation rates following mating; this is due to the effects of a sex peptide transferred from males to females during copulation (Villella and Hall, 2008; Yapici et al., 2008).

We cannot discount the formal possibility that the mating advantage is due to a direct interaction with competitors, perhaps by blocking them physically or interfering with their pheromone signals.