Sentence examples for used mate from inspiring English sources

In bowerbirds, for instance, females have used mate choice to transform male behavior in ways that have advanced their own sexual autonomy.

The chickens have gone and although there are a few greengrocers and butchers left, they occupy a tiny ghetto among the old telephones, stuffed cats, broken toys, and used mate shells.

We used mate choice experiments and gene expression analysis of female Drosophila melanogaster to examine three key components influencing speciation.

We put out decoys and used mating calls.

Maternal experimental variables include animals used, mating procedures and drug treatment and offspring experimental variables include litter standardisation, cross fostering, weaning and behaviours and parameters assessed.

Second, we used mate-reads from the PhiX control lane sequenced during our Illumina sequencing run.

Unless stated otherwise, all assays used mated females at day 7 after eclosion.

Whichever index of breeding failure was used (mating or nesting), only the previous season's territory quality was related to vegetation change.

Since most of these studies don't use MATE to grade acceptance, a direct comparison cannot be made.

As hypothesized, men at a high recurrent risk of sperm competition were more likely to use mate retention tactics and to perform semen-displacing behaviors.

In this way, we effectively force PhrapUMD to use mate pair information to build contigs.