Sentence examples for selection should favour from inspiring English sources
It seems strange that selection should favour a system in which the maximum litter size ends up as two when it could be more.
While most authors focus on infanticide by new male immigrants, natural selection should favour infanticide under a wider range of conditions, including sometimes by potential fathers.
Questions about soft song remain, notably why selection should favour low amplitude in vocal signals of aggression in songbirds.
Parasites can also be transmitted to host offspring, and selection should favour maternal responses that extend protection against parasites to eggs, embryos or chicks [1].
Natural selection should favour adaptive variation in offspring sex ratio if alterations maximise the offspring's potential reproductive success [Trivers-Willard hypothesis, TWH; 1].
Natural selection should favour the ability of mothers to adjust the sex ratio of offspring in relation to the offspring's potential reproductive success.
Such a constraint means that dispersal entails costs, and that selection pressure should favour behaviours that limit these costs.
Our results demonstrate that conjugative plasmid dependent bacteriophage PRD1 can significantly reduce the horizontal spread of antibiotic resistance genes in a bacterial community even when the bacteria are exposed to antibiotic selection that should favour the evolution of multidrug-resistant strains via conjugation.
However, although males are likely selected to produce effective plugs, selection should simultaneously favour the male ability to remove the plugs of rivals in order to gain access to female ova, since a male will encounter plugged females with a high probability.
Natural selection should therefore favour a strategy in hosts of increasing investment in resistance when host numbers are high.
Selection should therefore favour the strategy of a slightly increased calling rate (compared to any competitors), which could be kept up not only for one night but several [ 37].
