Sentence examples for social mating from inspiring English sources

Having less sperm for out-of-season social mating means it wastes less.

Multiple paternity rates differed significantly between social mating systems (F2,61 = 4.58 P = 0.014).

Similarly to birds [17], levels of extra group paternity did not reflect social mating systems.

I examined multiple paternity, EGP and alpha paternity rates in relation to social mating system using one-way ANOVAs.

Social mating system may be expected to correlate with testes size in species where alpha paternity may be important, e.g. primates [14], [27].

Mammalian multiple paternity rates did not show any concordance with social mating systems, though multi-male species tended to have higher multiple paternity rate than other categories.

However, all fairy-wrens are socially monogamous with restricted opportunities for social mate choice since breeding vacancies arise rarely in these long-lived, year-round territorial species with low divorce rates (see [ 9] and Table 1).

Wang and Lu [ 13] showed that even though the propensity of females to engage in extra-pair matings did not depend on the relatedness with the social mates, females nevertheless sought extra-pair copulations with males with whom they were more related to than their social mates.

Similarly, a study with house mice suggested that females seek extrapair matings with males that are more disparate at the MHC than their social mate (Potts et al., 1991).

In brief, in males, the net effect of experimentally elevated testosterone was decreased offspring production with social mates, and decreased survival, but higher overall fitness due to an increase in siring extra-pair offspring.

But how do early and late risers do with their social mates?