Sentence examples for preferred mating from inspiring English sources

Conversely, numerous instances have been documented whereby insects show kin preference, based on a whole range of processes which include preferred mating protocols, acoustic and visuals clues and pheromone detection.

Females that prevented aggression towards offspring and preferred mating with less aggressive males were most successful.

These findings have been attributed to direct family provisioning (i.e. kin selection, [3]), and to hunters being preferred mating partners due to their high social status, through which they might be signaling their good genes (i.e. costly signaling theory, [4], [5]).

In 1860, he wrote Asa Gray: "the sight of a feather in a peacock's tail … makes me sick!" Darwin eventually proposed elaborate peacock trains could evolve if peahens preferred mating with peacocks that had elaborate trains.

Key issues included low quality of the radiation-sterilised mass-reared flies, economical production of sufficient numbers of sterilised flies, and assortative mating of released and wild populations because of different preferred mating times [ 5- 7].

To assess participants' preferred mating strategy (sociosexual orientation), questions forming the 'attitude' and 'desire' subscales of the SOI-R were used [ 3, 13].

The Verhulst death probabilities depend on the phenotype, and so does the mating preference: females prefer mating partners with the largest (smallest) phenotype, if their own phenotype is larger smaller) than average.

Mares are warm-weather lovers: their 21-day cycles of heat come more easily in spring and summer, but breeders prefer mating them in February.

In this month's Animal Behavior, Hughes reports that the opposite is also true: Female guppies prefer mating with novel males as well.

Females often seem to prefer mating with faeders to copulation with normal males, and normal males also copulate with faeders (and vice versa) relatively more often than with females.

These observations strongly suggest that, in cichlids, there can be an inherent tendency to prefer mating with very closely related individuals.