Sentence examples for reproductive conflicts from inspiring English sources

Researchers do not know why, but Birkhead has a theory: their contribution "probably reflects the outcome of successive reproductive conflicts for control over fertilization between male and female".

In particular there is a growing body of feminist research on topics such as male mate choice, female-female competition, and the active female role in evolutionary reproductive conflicts between the sexes (see Hrdy 1999 and Gowaty 1992 , 1997 2004).

Aggression is the clearest manifestation of reproductive conflicts and is believed to be a parameter for testing reproductive skew theory [8].

Variation in individual response thresholds may reveal underlying variation in queen-worker reproductive conflict.

A textbook example of a species using lethal fights to settle a reproductive conflict is the honeybee, Apis mellifera [15].

This variation in individual response thresholds may reveal underlying variation in queen-worker reproductive conflict, and may mediate colony function and productivity by creating variation in individual task performance.

However, inhibition of workers' ovary development is not perfect, providing opportunities for movement along a "superorganism continuum" as reproductive conflict increases within colonies.

The table is not exhaustive and interspecies comparisons are complicated by differences in life histories, colony structure and degree of reproductive conflict among colony members.

Although these vertically transmitted symbionts may thus affect the expression and regulation of reproductive conflict in insect societies, rather little effort has been undertaken to estimate the total diversity of microbial associates of social insects.

Detailed quantitative observations on resource allocation in eusocial insects are needed to analyse the relevance of alternative explanations, e.g. logistic colony growth or reproductive conflict between queen and workers, for the evolution of graded allocation strategies.

The widespread occurrence of partial ovary development indicates that a honey bee colony falls significantly short of being the "perfect" superorganism and, instead, it hints at costly, actual reproductive conflict (sensu Reeve and Ratnieks) among its ranks.