Sentence examples for the breeding stage from inspiring English sources

The second operator of the breeding stage is mutation.

The breeding stage involves two processes: crossover and mutation.

A variety of modifications have been made to GAs in the breeding stage.

Yet they may encounter, and even join, nonbreeder groups from time to time [ 21], suggesting that memory for conspecifics may also be useful in the breeding stage.

To get an overview over the usage of different call types during different phases of the breeding stage, we ran a model for each vocalisation type on the frequency of vocalisations per recording period (extrapolated to the longest recording duration) in relation to the three-factor variable nest stage (pre-nesting, early, and later nest stages), again with bird identity as random factor.

In this case, the asymmetries thus changed over the breeding stages, with a peak at 'nest inspection'.

For males, the proportion of stack calls was lower than for females and showed less prominent differences between breeding stages: there was a decrease over the course of the breeding stages.

However, same-call interactions were more symmetrical between females and males, and changed over the breeding stages almost in the same way for both sexes.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07770.015 These interaction-level data indicated that vocal networks were dynamic, differed in pair and group communication, and were related to the breeding stages.

Tets showed two peaks during the breeding stages for females: one when birds were paired without own nest ('no nest') and one during 'egg-laying' (Fstage = 2.69, R marginal 2 = 0.08, R conditional 2 = 0.20).

In males, the number of cackles gradually increased over the breeding stages until 'territorial' and 'nest building' was reached, and then gradually decreased back to 'unpaired' values (Fstage = 4.67, R marginal 2 = 0.11, R conditional 2 = 0.52).