Sentence examples for reproductive interference from inspiring English sources

The behavior is a form of so-called reproductive interference, in which an animal's mate-recognition radar is imperfect; the encounters do not necessarily end fatally.

Or, the mechanism driving divergence might be some other interaction besides resource competition, such as predation or reproductive interference.

Reproductive interference in the form of incomplete species recognition has been postulated to select for divergent male calls in a variety of other taxa [40], but is unlikely to explain the pattern we describe here.

Thus, polyandry may be beneficial in populations that co-occur with closely related species and where there is reproductive interference.

Morphological diversification of corolla galea may reduce reproductive interference among co-occurring Pedicularis [ 36, 64], but also facilitate speciation in the recently derived group.

Competition for pollinators can drive the evolution of allochrony between flowering plant species (Rathcke 1983; Van Dijk and Bijlsma 1994), but is unlikely to do so when pollen limitation is weak and there is no direct reproductive interference (e.g., stigma clogging (Waser 1978)) between species (Devaux and Lande 2009).

These sounds can travel long distances and may change local acoustic environments, impacting marine mammals that use sound in reproductive interactions and interference with predator/prey detection.

Silver invokes government responsibility for the enactment of eugenic cruelties in the past in service of warning against governmental interference with reproductive freedom now and in the future.

A man convicted of killing a doctor who performed abortions as part of his practice apologized to the victim's widow in Federal District Court yesterday, the first day of his trial on charges of violating a federal law forbidding forceful interference with reproductive services.

"Women are capable of handling their own medical and reproductive health decisions without interference from legislators," she said.

The general consensus was that governmental prevention policy should refrain from interference with reproductive genetic issues.