mating success
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmateandsuccess
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mate
noun[C]
uk/meɪt/us/meɪt/
an animal's ...
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success
noun
uk/səkˈses/us/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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Men's short-termmatingsuccessshould have depended partly on which attributes women preferred and desired in short-term mates.
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Parasitoids used in longevity andmatingsuccessexperiments were isolated to prevent mating before the experiments, and fed with drops of pure honey.
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Matingsuccesswas measured as the number of matings a male could achieve under conditions closely approximating a regular culture vial of these populations.
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Increased asymmetry in a population may be associated with sublethal effects, such as reduced competitive ability ormatingsuccess.
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However, due to the variation in fecundity between females and in malematingsuccess, the effective population size may be smaller.
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Most data on the effects of inbreeding therefore come from measurements of components of fitness, such as viability, female fecundity or malematingsuccess.
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Finally, from thematingsuccess, the number of mated females that contributed to the production of the next generation was calculated.
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The eventual effect of female genotype on malematingsuccesswas also studied by using susceptible and resistant females.
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As a result, variance in men'smatingsuccesswas reduced.
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Measuring fitness that malematingsuccessdoes not differ with different genotypes of females, this would allow the male fertility component to be measured.
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It may be possible that this variation is associated with differences inmatingsuccessamong males.
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The study did not specify their standard measure ofmatingsuccess.
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What our results suggest is that in moderate-density cultures maintained on discrete and short generation cycles, on the other hand, malematingsuccesstends to vary at random.
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However, additional evidence (reviewed in sects. 4.5.1-3) suggests that these alternative selectional processes cannot fully explain the greater short-termmatingsuccessof more symmetrical men.
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The mechanism of strategy choice in such a case is genetic, with one's attractiveness being paired with a strategy that optimizesmatingsuccessfor one's appearance.
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Pollen dispersal and heterogeneity inmatingsuccessinferred from parent-offspring analysis.
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Hence,matingsuccesswould be favored in animals whose visual systems could be tuned to respond well to slow visual changes.
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Males that have clasps that are longer than those of other males were able to endure more somersaults by resistant females and achievedmatingsuccess.
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