Sentence examples for mating selectivity from inspiring English sources
It has recently been suggested that conditions favoring male mating selectivity may often arise in promiscuous lekking species (Saether et al. 2001; Bro-Jørgensen 2007), or more generally where competitively successful males achieve such high copulation rates that sperm depletion limits their mating capacity (Preston et al. 2001, 2005; Stockley and Bro-Jørgensen 2011).
High assertiveness during the fertile window may be a psychological adaptation that promotes mate selectivity and safeguards against indiscriminate mate choice when conception risk is highest.
Consequently, this validates the hypothesis of precopulatory mate choice by males and B. germanica can be added to the growing list of species for which male mate selectivity has been reported [15] [20], [31], [50] [52].
Intraspecific mate selectivity often is enforced by self-incompatibility (SI), a barrier to self-pollination that inhibits productive pollen-pistil interactions.
The transition from one social bias to another demonstrates ciliates can employ biases to adjust the selectivity of intuitive social heuristics and mating replies to meet the nontrivial demands of unstable mating contexts.
Do not mate or use mating terms!
