Sentence examples for measured mating from inspiring English sources

We simultaneously measured mating preferences for stature, body mass, and body mass index, and recorded corresponding actual partner's characteristics for 116 human couples from France.

To do this, we measured mating preferences and recorded mate characteristics for both partners in 116 couples sampled in Montpellier (France).

Thus, we measured mating preferences for stature, body mass and BMI, in 96 males and 96 females involved in a relationship, and we compared these preferences with the actual body shape characteristics of their partners.

To accomplish this goal, we measured mating success, reproductive success, and embryo survivorship within small breeding aggregations of Gulf pipefish, which were either exposed or not exposed to low concentrations of EE2 and used these data to measure the effects of EE2 on the intensity of selection and other reproductive attributes of this sex-role-reversed species.

To evaluate the hypothesis that C. elegans hermaphrodites express low mating frequency because they have the ability to self-reproduce without males, we depleted hermaphrodite self-sperm and measured mating frequency.

To understand how mating preferences translate into observed mating patterns, an important step would be to measure mating preferences, and to compare them with actual pairing involving the same individuals in natura.

In order to measure mating preferences for body size, we conducted a series of choice experiments using computer animations of digital images of different sizes of the opposite sex as stimuli.

We measured mate choice by observing male courtship and female response in an open aquarium [ 31, 35].

Overview of pairs of artificial stimuli used in measuring mating preferences for body size.

Given the difficulty of measuring mate preferences in the wild, a potential way forward is to examine factors that may influence estimates of heritability in female mate ornamentation.

To measure mate choice, we followed the procedure described in Vala et al. (2004)[ 57].