Sentence examples for the initial mate from inspiring English sources

This change in the willingness of participants to engage in a long-term romantic relationship with a mate varied with the initial mate score (F1,6357 = 395.46, p<0.0001) and tended to vary with the sex of the participant (F1,58 = 3.47, p = 0.07).

When a female failed to produce a litter within 90 days of the initial mating, the male was replaced.

Interestingly, the operation did not affect the initial mating drive.

If more than one female was mated by a male, the number of eggs on the initial mating plate was divided evenly between them.

Since the germ line produces sperm, we next asked if sperm production or sperm movement during ejaculation affects the initial mating drive and/or the refractory period duration.

Although this population has limited variability due to the initial mating, the broiler sire was characterized by the offsprings' phenotypic means and variances of body composition phenotypes, which showed that it was representative of the entire broiler population [ 10].

Isofemale populations were immediately expanded to a large population size following the initial mating (approximately 100 1000 offspring per line in the first generation and very large population sizes in subsequent generations).

We next asked if the somatic gonad, consisting of the seminal vesicle (the storage area of mature sperm) and the vas deferens (a tubular seminal fluid-producing conduit for sperm movement), was sufficient to promote the initial mating drive, or if the germ line was also required.

A wide range of differences in the number of proliferative NPC has been quantified in the RMS of nine inbred strains (including DBA/2 J, C57BL/6 J, A/J) and 27 AXB/BXA recombinant inbred (RI) strains derived from the initial mating of C57BL/6 J and A/J mice [ 14].

After this initial mating, half of the females were allowed to experience post-copulatory courtship (P) and half were not (NP).

The rationale behind this is that males should adjust their mating behaviour by modulating, or even reversing, their initial mate choice in the presence of a rival.