Sentence examples for mode of mating from inspiring English sources
Out-crossing is thought to be the ancestral mode of mating in the Brassicaceae [ 57] and the S-locus specificity genes are predicted to be derived from common ancestors [ 58].
For all models, I included body mass (to avoid using residuals in the model: [51]), ovulation mode and length of mating season as these were important in previous analyses of testes mass [15].
Additionally, length of mating season, ovulation mode and litter size significantly influenced testes size in one model.
These results demonstrate that patterns of mating (multiple paternity and alpha paternity rates) determined by genetic analysis can provide reliable indicators of male postcopulatory intrasexual competition (testes size), and that other variables (length of mating season, ovulation mode, litter size) may also be important.
Relative testes size was associated with multiple paternity, length of mating season and litter size, but not ovulation mode (Table 1).
The number of mating events per swarm varied from zero to 93, with a mode of six and a possible secondary mode around 50.
While perhaps not common for C. elegans in nature, male-male sperm competition likely is an important aspect of mating system evolution in closely related gonochoristic species that retain the ancestral mode of reproduction.
The evolution of reproductive mode in the Fucaceae has followed a reticulate pattern of alternating dioecious and hermaphroditic lineages that challenges current understanding of mating system evolutionary trends.
The results suggested that morphology of mating hybrid plies might affect stiffness in woven fabrics.
Wilkinson and Fry [ 40] found no significant effect of mating order on patterns of paternity with both first and second males siring equal numbers of progeny, suggesting that sperm mixing (P2 ≈ 0.5) is the predominant mode of sperm utilization.
