Sentence examples for sexual specialization from inspiring English sources

We identified a new sexual specialization in dioecious fig trees: the position of fig production.

We consider the adaptations of F. benguetensis because of sexual specialization and their evolutionary implications as follows.

We hypothesized that sexual specialization in different reproductive functions of male and female trees should be reflected not only in the fig phenology but also in the fig distribution over an individual tree.

In summary, sexual specialization and biological requirements of the agaonid wasp C. wui, but not climatic factors, appear to mainly shape the phenology and allometry in the simultaneously flowering dioecious F. benguetensis.

However, our observations agree with the concept proposed by Patel and McKey (1998), that extreme sexual specialization can be an adaptive response to unstable trade-offs in the reproductive traits of monoecious figs.

This result is driven in part by the pure relatedness asymmetries that apply even in the single once-mated queen case, but it is reinforced by the sexual specialization of colonies of different types.

For example, M. leonina and C. cristata have distinctive cranial morphology related to sexual dimorphism specializations, and both have relatively high rates of evolution [ 31].

The items address not only approval of marital alternatives (i.e., cohabitation and childbearing outside marriage), but also beliefs about marriage itself (its happiness) and appropriate behavior inside marriage (gender specialization, sexual fidelity).

The Midas cichlid species complex Amphilophus spp. has been proven to be a powerful model system for the study of ecological specialization, sexual selection and the mechanisms of sympatric speciation.

In addition to fine-scale interspecific differentiation, sexual dimorphism driven by ecological specialization (rather than sexual selection) can provide another nested level of divergence (Temeles et al. 2000, 2010; Bolnick and Lau 2008; Herler et al. 2010).

These attitudes cover beliefs about the superiority of marriage and expectations of permanence, gender specialization, and sexual fidelity.