Sentence examples for showed mate from inspiring English sources

However, our sample size is comparable to that of other zebra finch mate-choice studies reporting significant effects of morphological and developmental traits on female preferences (e.g. [40], [49], [50]) and to the crossbill study that showed mate preferences based on foraging efficiency [8].

Both female and male participants showed mate-choice copying.

Since females are more inbred and were used for the initial genome assembly, many fewer reads derived from females showed mate-pair violations (31.8% of male pairs versus only 4.5% of female pairs).

In 15 blindfolded but otherwise unrestrained control pairs, 7 males showed mating attempts by seizing (7 males), turning (6 males), and mounting (1 male) the female.

Preliminary experiments, in which 59 females were each exposed to five marked and five unmarked males showed mating success to be similar for marked and unmarked males.

(A) Average litter size based on the number of old (age of 12 to 16 months) B6C3F1 female mice that were successfully mated, showing mating plugs.

Because females show mating preferences for the whine-chuck call, there is no question that the whine-chuck elicits differential responses in the túngara frog brain.

As previously reported, our results show mating is costly for female S. cynipsea.

The composition of this male pheromone varies in an age-dependent manner and females show mating preference towards older males in choice experiments.

To identify structural variation, we utilized aligned read pairs with abnormal span size or orientation (i.e. those showing mate-pair violations) using SOAPsv http://soap.genomics.org.cn/.org.cn/

Given the small population size and the distance from the mainland, we expected a reduced gene flow in this insular population and we predicted that females would show mating preferences for genetically dissimilar mates.