Sentence examples for measures of mating from inspiring English sources

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.

For illustration, we calculated a measure of mating advantage of large spores from the proportion of matings with large spores from the total number of mated trials.

The measure of mating success for each male (years 2000, 2002 and 2003) was based on the number of observed copulations during the breeding season, which provides a very good estimator of reproductive success in fallow deer [ 29].

To arrive at a measure of mating preference that varies symmetrically around the situation of indifference and extends over the range from complete rejection to complete preference, it is desirable to normalize U accordingly.

Though the field and molecular data on mating frequencies were consistent, we noted that the molecular data yielded more sensitive measures on mating frequencies, allowing the detection of smaller differences in mating numbers than classical field observations.

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.