Sentence examples for mating with more from inspiring English sources
"This is because mating with more partners was shown to increase reproductive success more in men than in women".
Contrary to initial reports of monogamy, ruffed lemurs in the wild exhibit seasonal polygamous breeding behavior, with both males and females mating with more than one partner within a single season.
Mate choice may thus often require a compromise between the benefits of mating with more preferred males and the lower risk of predation that results from mating with less preferred males.
We show that the 1,498 genes in Zimbabwean female D. melanogaster whose expression levels differ when mating with more (Zimbabwean) versus less (Cosmopolitan strain) preferred males include many with high expression in the central nervous system and ovaries, are disproportionately X-linked and form a number of clusters with low recombination distance.
To elucidate potential mechanisms of sexual isolation through mate choice, we identified candidate female choice genes by examining gene expression in Zimbabwean SZ female D. melanogaster 30 minutes after mating with more (their own strain) versus less (M strain) preferred males.
Females were also selective by mating with more intensely courting males, which happened to be conspecifics.
In the SM system, males frequently mated with more than one female during a mating period of 4 days.
We found that female age influenced the age and dominance ranks of the males they mated with; yearling females represented almost half of the matings gained by young males (46%), and they mated with more younger and lower-ranking males than older females, which mated almost exclusively with dominant males.
In a study in southern Texas during the mating seasons from 1990 to 1992, about one third of all females mated with more than one male.
Despite popular opinion, pandas are actually considered rather promiscuous, because they mate with more than one partner.
In species where females routinely mate with more than one male, males have evolved to make more sperm than in those where females are prim.
