Sentence examples for morphometric ornaments in from inspiring English sources
We suggest that the fact that patterns of variability are broadly similar in males and females might indicate that ornaments may be more often than expected used for mutual mate assessment [53] or be important for status signalling in both sexes, as has been suggested for highly variable morphometric ornaments in females [10].
We used phenotypic engineering (i.e. manipulation of ornament size) to ask whether both sexes show a preference for sexually homologous ornaments in the polygynous mosquito, Sabethes cyaneus.
The elaborate male displays and plumage ornaments in the African widowbirds and bishops (Euplectes spp).
Figure 8 Strawed dispersed lime to restore marble imitated ornaments in Xuhui High School Shanghai (built in 1850).
This year, I wrapped their ornaments in the good tissue.
Various individuals brought, not their extra ornaments, but what must have been the finest ornaments in their collections.
Besides the amount of literature on female ornaments in birds compared to other taxa, also in birds, most of the empirical work on female ornamentation has been carried out in species with similar ornaments in males and females (Amundsen 2000; Bennett and Owens 2002), maybe because the situation where both males and females are ornamented but have different ornaments appears to be rare.
Even though there appear to be clear relationships between testosterone levels and these two ornaments in house sparrows, the relationship between within-individual variation in testosterone levels and the timing and extent of ornament development is still very poorly understood.
However, the expression of female ornaments in relation to body size, known as trait allometry, still remains unexplored.
Arrange ornaments in the bowl.
