Sentences with phrase «mating signal»

It would have looked a bit like the time - honored mating signal.

Biden and Ryan stand on either side of that debate, and their selections as running mates signal vastly different approaches to winning the Catholic vote.

So scientists have been puzzled that males of many species, including fish and frogs, send mating signals that a female has trouble perceiving.

Control of yeast mating signal transduction by a mammalian beta 2 - adrenergic receptor and Gs alpha subunit

Methyl laurate transmits a positive mating signal that seems to be conserved within many drosophilid flies.

Now, a study of Australian birds finds that other animals use the same «scary movie effect» to attract female attention, by hitchhiking mating signals onto the calls of predators.

Podos's study «is one of the few, if not the only,» example showing that adapting to a new niche automatically changes an animal's mating signal, Ryan says.

The mating signal was lost.

What began as a mating signal could have been co-opted in animals for an even more important role.

The call, possibly a mating signal, suggests that the animal lives in total, and undesired, isolation....