Sentence examples for mating preference from inspiring English sources

In a second experiment, they took pairs of females with matching roundness of bellies -- a feature that could have influenced mating preference -- and painted the two fish in each pair to make one look brighter than the other.

And the only creature on earth who benefits from rhino horn is the rhino who grows it for defense and for mating preference.

In our experiments, males clearly biased their courting investment towards non-siblings female lures, suggesting male mating preference based on their relatedness to females.

Results derived by [16] show that the potential for indirect selection on (genetic benefits for) a female mating preference depend on three factors.

Simultaneous-choice assays of mating preference showed that females attend to species- and sex-specific chemical cues emitted in male urine.

Male mating preference was evaluated by giving males a simultaneous choice in a Y-olfactometer between two calling lures that were either siblings or non-siblings of the test males.

If the mating preference strength is a2 = 10, as shown in figure 4, then P2 goes to extinction if the CI level is below 0.384 but spreads on the island if CI is above this threshold.

Numerous basidia and longer basidiospores chains were observed in both strains after 6 days at pH = 5, which is the same pH mating preference displayed by C. neoformans var.

A comparison of the mainland-island model with the two-way migration model reveals that back migration facilitates local adaptation and the spread of mating preference mutants on the island.

These results suggest a significant role for visual cues in mating preference.

The proportion of offspring sired by either male determined mating preference.