Sentence examples for multiple paternity rate from inspiring English sources

Thus, disparities between relative testes size and multiple paternity rate may reflect an evolutionary disequilibrium with behaviour evolving faster than morphological traits [31].

Mammalian multiple paternity rates did not show any concordance with social mating systems, though multi-male species tended to have higher multiple paternity rate than other categories.

Multiple paternity rates differed significantly between social mating systems (F2,61 = 4.58 P = 0.014).

In my dataset, small testes were sometimes found in species with high multiple paternity rates.

Testes size is greater in species with high multiple paternity rates, whereas the converse is found for alpha paternity.

Overall, relative testes size was positively correlated to multiple paternity rates (Figure 1) and was lower in species with short mating seasons (Figure 2).

This may reflect the limitations of using testes data from different localities, or that multiple paternity rates may vary temporally within a population (e.g. [30]).

However, it is not known whether variation in multiple paternity rates causes variation in testes size within a single population of mammals and, how fast testes size responds to any variation.

Multiple paternity rates are the most widely used measure but are limited to species that produce multi-offspring litters, so, at least for group living species, other measures such as loss of paternity to males outside the social group (extra group paternity) or the proportion of offspring sired by the dominant male (alpha paternity) might be appropriate.

Larger litters/clutches also alter the ability to detect multiple paternity [4], [21], but since both multiple paternity and litter size were significant in the same model, this indicates that litter size is still having a significant positive impact on relative testes size, probably as a results of increasing litter size increasing multiple paternity rates [40].

Experience might allow females to avoid male harassment and coercion, though this explanation seems unlikely, as females had a refuge and the differences in body mass between females and males had no influence on the multiple paternity rates.