Sentence examples for poor quality mate from inspiring English sources

Also, females may be more likely to engage in extra-pair matings when they have a poor quality mate ("trade- up hypothesis") (Kempenaers et al. 1992).

This might be due to cryptic female choice, whereby females reduce egg laying when mated to incompatible or poor quality mates (Markow 1997).

Using data from urban India, Shenk and Scelza (2012) found that the death of one's father during later childhood or adolescence was associated with marrying poorer quality mates, not the loss of fathers early in childhood.

Neoseiulus californicus females are likely to be less choosy than P. persimilis females because mate acceptance errors such as first choosing a poor-quality male (possibly indicated by small body size) can be more easily compensated for by remating.

It therefore seems that sexual conflict does not play a significant role in yolk androgen allocation but rather that females may allocate yolk androgens to adjust the growth trajectories of the chicks to poor growing conditions when for example mated with young males that are poor-quality providers or occupying a poor quality territory.

The second problem is poor quality.

Both these proposals if taken forward will result in poor quality homes and poorer quality developments.

"And so we've had years of poor funding, poor quality equipment and poor solutions being offered to the poor".

One obstacle is the poor quality of much science teaching.

Even poor quality second-hand copies now cost about £10,000.

The tape was poor quality and often peeled off.