Sentence examples for mortality of males from inspiring English sources

The use of bycatch-reduction devices on crab traps may help prevent terrapins from entering the traps, but current models are too large to prevent mortality of males and many females in this population.

Therefore, it is the polygynous relationship that causes the imbalance, not vice versa: because sexual selection is the dominant factor in a polygamous and promiscuous species, it results in a greater mortality of males than of females.

In nature, mate finding leads to a further elevated mortality of males, because these swim rapidly in their search for attractive partners, further relaxing fitness benefits of maintenance investments.

However, unexpected high mortality of males soon after the additions, probably from bird predation, forced us to add additional males to all treatments in order to achieve natural rates of encounter between males and females.

The major factor complicating the extrapolation of this cannibalism rate to a completely non-manipulated natural population is the variation in male densities produced by our intentional alteration of sex ratios in the plots, and by the high mortality of males during the experiment, probably due to bird predation, as these were the only predators that were not excluded (see Methods).

This may explain the increased mortality of males compared to females.

Mortality of male and female D. insulare was recorded at 2, 12, 24, 48 and 72 h for each treatment after inoculation.

Pharmacological stress of the hearts of PPARα knockout mice with Etomoxir to prevent mitochondrial fatty acid import, results in cardiac lipid accumulation and a 100% mortality of male mice but only 25% mortality of female mice [21].

Additionally, 4a and 10a (50  μM) were able to cause 75% mortality of male and 25% mortality of female adult worms.

The female:male ratio of our sample could be explained by the increased mortality of male patients with severe forms of CAH.

In contrast, the exposure to 12.5 to 50  μM of compound 3f resulted in 100% mortality of male adult worms, whereas no mortality in the female worms was observed.