Sentence examples for weak sexual from inspiring English sources
The other line underwent weak sexual selection, with one female to five males, or no sexual selection at all, with one male for each female.
None of 108 families from populations that had evolved under weak sexual selection tested survived beyond the 10th generation of inbreeding.
A curtain dramatically unfurled on a diagonal string, billowing majestically like a sail, ended up serving as a shadow screen for some weak sexual sight gags involving a tiny man and a giant woman.
These factors make the Eubosmina system suitable for testing the hypotheses that extended clonal phases and weak sexual recruitment inhibit speciation.
Mixed breeding systems with extended clonal phases and weak sexual recruitment are widespread in nature but often thought to impede the formation of discrete evolutionary clusters.
However, in groups with mostly asexual systems, extended clonal phases followed by weak sexual recruitment may prevent the formation of discrete lineages.
Decreased polyandry and weaker sexual selection could prove costly, because sexual selection has been shown to be beneficial via acting against disease [ 17, 18], deleterious mutations [ 19- 21], inbreeding [ 22- 24] or selfish genetic elements [ 4, 25].
A key prediction is that in gregarious populations, song parameters will reflect the consistently weaker sexual selection on males due to role-reversal plus selection to decrease the risk of attracting natural enemies attracted to song [ 23, 32].
And the unions -- believing that they are helping the cause of teachers by being weak on sexual predators -- prefer suspensions and fines, and not dismissal, for teachers charged with inappropriate sexual conduct.
"In these countries, generally the national laws are weak on sexual violence.
Thus, although we found weak postcopulatory sexual selection to act via spermatophore attachment duration in the absence of male guarding, the findings for T. commodus suggest that this selection is likely to be even weaker when male T. oceanicus guard their mates after copulation.
