Sentence examples for multiple mating also from inspiring English sources

Gage and colleagues found that multiple mating, also called polyandry, did benefit inbred females.

Multiple mating may also depend upon the females' own condition, such as their age, body mass or genetic quality (e.g. inbreeding status).

Multiple mating may also ensure full fertility though, for instance if a single copulation involves the transfer of insufficient sperm (Pai et al. 2005; Wang and Davis 2006).

In some gryllid crickets, female multiple mating is also associated with enhanced longevity, although it is not clear if this is directly due to benefits from spermatophore consumption, as the effect was observed in species lacking a nutritious spermatophylax [ 44].

As well as benefits of multiple mating, potential costs also exist [ 14].

This does not mean that sexual conflict is irrelevant, but it shows that the effects of female multiple mating on fitness must also always be considered.

If sexual selection was driving multiple mating by females, we should also expect female dunnocks in monogamous groups to engage in extra-pair copulations.

Also like multiple mating, the non-imprinted optimum is not the average of the patrigenic and matrigenic ones, but does reflect the degree to which they become less potent through dilution with cousins who are either unrelated (for patrigenes) or less related (for matrigenes).

On the other hand, females might also increase their reproductive success by allocating successive matings to multiple mating partners [ 42, 43].

Indirect benefits to females may also ensue if multiple mating results in the production of genetically superior offspring, for example if sperm competition engenders fertilisation of eggs by genetically superior or more compatible males [17]; [17].

In this context we also examine how multiple mating affects the evolution of thresholds and division of labor.