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We found that mating success was affected by a complex interaction between juvenile diet, adult diet and courtship rate.

The influence of male orange colouration on relative mating success was examined in two ways.

Mating success was compared between mute-operated and sham-operated males of Z-type O. nubilalis (Darmstadt).

The measure of male mating success was based on the number of observed copulations, and this provides a very good estimator of their reproductive success [59].

For those offspring that assigned to individual males with 95% confidence, we then used logistic regression with enclosure replicate as a fixed factor to determine if individual male mating success was associated with colour.

Although mating success was similar under our experimental conditions, we identified significant differences between haploid and diploid males with respect to their initiation of courtship behaviour, body size, and reproductive output.

Our finding, that when transgenic or hybrid and transgenic sneakers' mating success is higher than anadromous males, even low mating preference of those genotypes enables invasion, is thus in line with Garant et al.'s (2003) results.

Although maternal females with existing calves rarely ovulate postpartum (the rate is estimated at 8.5 percent), just this slight chance of mating success is sufficient to attract multiple male groups to mother-calf pairs.

In every species examined to date, a male's mating success is strongly influenced by the quality of his bower and his vocalizations (Borgia 1985; Borgia and Presgraves 1998).

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In Experiment 2, differences in mating success were first tested using two-tailed Fisher's exact tests.