Although the timing of female receptivity post-parturition is unknown in these skinks, best attempts were made to maximise the time between parturition and use of a female in the preference trials.
Successful reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster requires the interplay of behavioral repertoires performed by males and females, which include male courtship, female receptivity, copulation, and female post-mating responses.
I imagined the Silly Putty of my son's brain — a post-Babelian dream of language receptivity — hardening into a monolingual clod.
Instead, do it from a place of presence, receptivity, and wonder.
Despite that, Professor Maguire said, there has been a "very strong receptivity in Haiti to what the diaspora can contribute" post-earthquake, something that had been "more heat than light" before, he said.
Mitchell had embarked on his post-graduate travels in a state of exquisite receptivity.
Exploring caregivers' knowledge of and receptivity toward novel diagnostic tests and treatments for persons with post-traumatic disorders of consciousness.
Here, we extend our previous study [ 4], experimentally manipulating female receptivity to further mating by varying female exposure to male post-copulatory courtship following an initial mating.
In Nasonia, post-copulatory behaviour by males greatly reduces female receptivity to future mating, making multiple matings by females uncommon and sperm competition relatively unimportant in this system (Leonard and Boake, 2008; Whiting, 1967).
Gene expression changes in the brain are likely to mediate some of the long-term behavioral changes that occur post-mating, which lasts about one week and includes reduced receptivity to mating and increased egg laying.
Males perform a stereotyped pre- and post-copulatory courtship display, the former of which serves to initiate receptivity and the latter to reduce female receptivity to future mating attempts [ 11].
