Sentence examples for serves as a mating from inspiring English sources

Male bow-winged grasshoppers produce their song, which serves as a mating call, by rubbing a toothed file on their hind legs against a protruding vein on their front wings.

The function of genital damage varies between species: while it serves as a mating plug in N. fenestrata [ 24] it does not prevent copulations and paternity of rival males in N. plumipes [ 21].

Among Argo's Americanized drink varieties is a version of the national drink of both Argentina and Uruguay, the mate, which Argo serves as a Mate late.

Selkirk served as a mate aboard the Duke, and was later given command of one of the prize ships taken by the expedition.

It has been previously suggested that green fluorescence may serve as a mate recognition/attraction signal in these copepods by creating a contrast with the blue background of the oceanic water [10].

Frontal wing displays, coupled with the wing spots, also have been proposed to serve as a visual mating cue in two wing spot−bearing species within the related suzukii subgroup (Fuyama 1977, 1979; Hegde et al. 2005).

The idea that he would serve as a running mate was, more or less, fantastical.

The third rat served as a cage-mate control.

— serves as a chaser.

While body weight does not appear to reflect the stage of development of female eggs in H. abdominalis (Poortenaar et al. 2004), weight may indicate the number of hydrated eggs a female has available for transfer and may possibly serve as an important mating cue to males.

In some species, even the whole male body may serve as a short term mating plug [ 26].