Sentence examples for measures of mate from inspiring English sources

However, there are no well validated self-report measures of mate value.

"Among these well-acquainted individuals, consensus on measures of mate value was nearly zero.

Future studies should reduce unexplained variance or use alternative measures of mate preference.

Then came several measures of mating success.

Such quantitative measures of mating system should help study the association between plant traits, mating system, inbreeding and FST.

While these results suggest that male-biased sex ratios increase the amount of financial resources men will invest in potential mates, it is not known whether this pattern of results also occurs for other measures of mating effort.

Prezygotic reproductive isolation (RI) was calculated as RI = 1 – (observed number of heterospecific matings/total matings) a variation on the method of Coyne and Orr [ 1] which allows for unequal numbers of crosses or where the two types of expected mating frequencies are unequal [ 62, 63], using circling and copulation as separate measures of mating.

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].

We conclude that the MVS is a short and effective measure of mate value.

Therefore, mate ornamentation seems to be a poor measure of mate preferences in our population, and this makes its heritability and patterns with experience difficult to interpret.

However, the potential individual variation in mate sampling, the large temporal and spatial heterogeneity in mate availability and ornamentation, and breeding site fidelity together imply that mate ornamentation may also be a bad measure of mate choice.