A mating system is a way in which a group is structured in relation to sexual behaviour. The precise meaning depends upon the context. With respect to...
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progeny (see mating systems). For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool. In some...
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Vole (redirect from Mating systems of voles)
increases the frequency of mating among distantly related individuals, and is achieved mainly by dispersal during the mating season. Such a strategy is...
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Bird (redirect from Mating systems of birds)
M. (1997). "Variation in mating system among birds: ecological basis revealed by hierarchical comparative analysis of mate desertion". Proceedings of...
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copulating with females. The variation in mating success is quite large in lek mating systems with 70–80% of matings being attributed to only 10–20% of the...
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Dunnock (section Mating systems)
mating systems. Females are often polyandrous, breeding with two or more males at once, which is quite rare among birds. This multiple mating system leads...
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give rise to the next generation. Mating in fungi is a complex process governed by mating types. Research on fungal mating has focused on several model species...
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Polygyny in animals (redirect from Polygynous mating systems)
wife') is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a single male. Systems where several...
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Anaconda (section Mating system)
compete, but not large enough to risk other males trying to mate with them. During the mating season female anacondas release pheromones to attract males...
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Ursus (mammal) (section Mating system ecology)
average, mate with three to four males during a mating season and mating males have more variation, mating with one to eight females during a mating season...
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European fallow deer (redirect from Mating systems of fallow deer)
mating territories in which the females’ only purpose for visiting these territories is for copulation. Variation within European fallow deer mating systems...
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Papilio polyxenes (section Mating systems)
is a drawback to this emergence system. For biological reasons, overall male mating frequency decreases as the mating season goes on. Therefore, early...
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Vespula squamosa (section Mating system)
with their polygynous mating system. In a parasitic system, females lay eggs in a different species' nests, and in a polygynous system a female of the same...
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Animal sexual behaviour (redirect from Receptive to mating)
is reproductively motivated, it is often termed mating or copulation; for most non-human mammals, mating and copulation occur at oestrus (the most fertile...
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Bear (redirect from Mating systems of bears)
individuals to keep track of one another in the vast Arctic wilderness. The mating system of bears has variously been described as a form of polygyny, promiscuity...
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Sex (section Sexual systems)
Yeasts with the same mating types will not fuse with each other to form diploid cells, only with yeast carrying another mating type. Many species of...
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Disassortative mating (also known as negative assortative mating or heterogamy) is a mating pattern in which individuals with dissimilar phenotypes mate with one...
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mating is used. Mixed mating usually refers to the production of a mixture of self-fertilized (selfed) and outbred (outcrossed) seeds. Plant mating systems...
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sap and rotten fruits. Aglais io employs a monogamous mating system, which means that they only mate with one partner for a period of time.[citation needed]...
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alternative mating strategy is a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy...
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Primate sociality (section Primate mating systems)
defend mating access to females. Polygamy, or a polygamous mating system, is when both males and females mate with two or more partners. In this mating system...
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Triggerfish (section Mating systems)
territory. This mating system is an example of male-territory-visiting polygamy. Triggerfishes exhibit other types of mating systems, as well, such as...
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Papilio demodocus (section Mating system)
female has already mated or not. This species primarily mates via the lek system, in which there are aggregations of males on small mating territories. When...
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Mating balls are a brief gregarious structure resulting from a mating behaviour wherein a large number of individuals cluster together while mating. It...
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Panmixia (redirect from Random mating)
population is panmictic. In genetics and heredity, random mating usually implies the hybridising (mating) of individuals regardless of any spatial, physical...
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Polygynandry (category Mating systems)
Polygynandry is a mating system in which both males and females have multiple mating partners during a breeding season. In sexually reproducing diploid...
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Polyandry in animals (category Mating systems)
a class of mating system where one female mates with several males in a breeding season. Polyandry is often compared to the polygyny system based on the...
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Behavioral ecology (section Mating systems)
Tobago. In this mating system, female guppies prefer to mate with males with more orange body coloration. However, outside of a mating context, both sexes...
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European pied flycatcher (section Mating systems)
female for mating. The males that have better success at polygyny are typically larger, older and more experienced at arriving earlier to the mating sites...
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The check-mate system was a system of ship identification used by the Allies of World War II. It was used by the Royal Navy when on patrol looking for...
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