Sentence examples for may affect mating from inspiring English sources

Fragmentation of plant populations may affect mating patterns and female and male reproductive success.

We determined that mechanical constraints, resulting from relationships between body size and foreleg morphology, may affect mating initiation success of male water striders according to the mechanical model of mating interactions.

The work suggests that factors besides parental investment may affect mate choice much more than evolutionary theory anticipates, says Robert Warner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Specifically, Sumner et al. [ 30] recently found that parasitism may affect mate number of the parasitic queen.

This variation, which is usually due to a combination of environmental and genetic effects, may strongly affect mating patterns: the more the flowering periods of two individuals overlap, the higher is their chance of mating with each other.

They said the changed behaviour might affect mating success.

While it has been shown that during the breeding season starling song is involved in female mate choice and in male-male interactions [20], [21], [22], [23] and that song rates may affect fitness (reviewed by [23]), it has been suggested that non-breeding song may also affect mating decisions and pair formation, as well as social cohesion [24].

Many mating preferences are innate [ 1]; still, various extrinsic factors (ecological constraints) may affect individual mating decisions [ 8- 10], such as altered possibilities for mate quality assessment due to increased costs of mate searching [ 11, 12].

Kin recognition based on odour has been reported in birds [ 100, 101] and may affect their mate choice [ 102- 104].

The description of the mating is based on trials with females without plugs (N = 35, section Mating behaviour), as plug presence may affect the normal mating procedure.

Here we model male decisions about whether to commit infanticide and explore how infanticide risk may affect optimal male mating strategies.