Sentence examples for mating target from inspiring English sources

The aim of Pogorelov's 7 b5 is to threaten a later b4 to attack the white king if Short castles on the queenside, or if Short castles kingside, a queenside fianchetto will aim for a mating target.

Nevertheless, when offered a wild-type female as a mating target, Poxn-feminized males actively courted virgin females with the same tenacity as parental and sibling controls (supplementary material Fig. S1C,D).

These data further supported a model in which male sexual preferences are strongly affected by the available pool of mating targets, and that the decision to court a specific target depends on its relative attractiveness to other possible targets.

For male female assays, Canton-S virgin females served as mating targets.

In addition, the feminization of ppk23-expressing neurons can lead to erroneous interpretations of the mating targets pool.

Here, we show that where sperm supplies are limited, males too can display considerable restraint in mating, targeting reproductive effort toward particular females.

The response of individual animals to mating signals depends on the sexual identity of the individual and the genetics of the mating targets, which represent the mating social context (social environment).

The repeated failed courtship attempts lead to suppression of courtship behaviors toward the female target by the end of the training period and when subsequently presented with a different mated female target (see Griffith and Ejima 2009).

To generate mated female targets in assays where males choose virgin or recently mated females, naive males were first paired with virgin females in 35 × 10 mm tissue culture dishes (Nunclon, Denmark) and observed for copulation.

Copulation choice indicates the percentage of females that copulated with males from all trials within 30 min. In some cases, males copulated with both virgin and mated female targets within the same trial.

In the current study, mostly mid- to low-ranking post-prime males used the coalitionary tactic to level mating access by targeting a higher-ranking male who was consorting a female or preventing a higher-ranking target from establishing a consortship at all.