Sentence examples for mating priority from inspiring English sources

Top scent-releasers gained mating priority (they mated first) and top groomers ensured a higher number of renewed copulations (they mated more).

The rank of mating priority assigned to males did not correlate with their mating frequency (Exact Spearman rs = −0.434, n = 8, p = 0.284; α = 0.01 adjusted via Bonferroni).

In fact, females grant mating priority to those males that are most active in scent-marking and a greater amount of renewed copulations to those males they receive most grooming from.

In particular we adopted the Spearman test to correlate the rank of mating priority with the frequency of a) mating episodes; b) male countermarking on female depositions; c) fights won by males in presence of females; d) male-to-female and female-to-male grooming.

Male mating priority rank correlated with the frequency of male countermarking over female scents but not with the proportion of fights won by males over females.

Many males can compete and occasionally obtain female access but only top scent-releasers and groomers reach the highest mating priority and rates, thus maximizing their reproduction probability.

Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratits capitata, have been shown to shift their behavioral priority from mating to oviposition (Jang et al. 1999).

Immunosuppression by testosterone may be the result of resource allocation among activities with competing demands e.g. resources necessary for the maintenance of the immune functions may be reallocated to the production of costly secondary sexual characters, which have higher priority to increase mating success [9].

We assigned expected mating success based on the priority-of-access model following Altmann (1962).

The narrow window of opportunity available for mating appears to be an influence, as there is a priority to mate and breed which often precludes waiting for the appearance of the previous year's partner.

Dominant males also tend to have priority in mating or may even have exclusive responsibility for mating within a "harem".