Sentences with phrase «of the mating pair»

That the Earth was first populated through incest via Adam, Eve and their offspring (including unnamed females) and that sometime later, a 500 year old man and his immeidate family re-populated the earth after having crammed tens of thousands of mating pairs of animals on a boat that couldn't possibly support even a tiny fraction of that number?

Model AP involved an age indifferent preference in the formation of mating pairs («All Pairs», matrix MijAP, Table S2), whereas model YP («Young Pairs», matrix MijYP, Table S3) involved preferences between only younger males and younger females (models used indicated by bars in Fig. 1).

This plot shows the distribution of mate pairs that support reference allele for MEI events detected by the 1000 Genomes Project that were also detected in the sequenced genome.

Responsible breeders take into consideration the temperament, as well as the health and appearance of the mating pair before breeding.

Microfilariae can be seen in whole blood under the microscope; however, their numbers are dependent on the number of mating pairs of adults in the heart.

Those that live usually have both parents of a mated pair caring for it, even if the male of the pair isn't the father.

Not exact matches

Nothing can argue the glass out of its passive (but wait: impassive, call it) alert, ready and able to mate doubles in pitiless pairs, mimicking background as well, fixed in its quicksilver depth.

Can I make striped goats by having mating pairs of goats stare at stripped objects?

Carol — You need to re-read your bible: «Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,» Most animals are «clean,» so that would be 14 of each.

As soon as I tasted one of these cute little lemon meringue wafffle crisps from NatureBox, I knew they'd quickly become a mate for a carton of blueberries, and the pair would live happily ever after.

That match sees the fourth - seeded pairing of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo against the 16th - seeded Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic.

Jeff and Malen look prospects of the highest grade and now nabbing the Nigerian u17, world - cup winning captain along with one of his highly rated team - mates with mixed reports between 3 - 6million for the pair is huge!

Wenger has hinted that he may have to sell Ozil and Sanchez (but NOT Jack) in January, but according to his team - mate Nacho Monreal, there is no way that either of the pair have any interest in leaving before next summer, unless they are forced to by the management.

Sanchez and Shkodran Mustafi are both behind most of their team - mates in their pre-season preparations after the pair's involvement in the Confederations Cup.

Ocon has been involved in one of the most hard - fought team - mate battles this season, with team orders coming into effect between the pair who are separated in the standings by 17 points.

West Brom are set to again be without loan star Daniel Sturridge and midfield pair Nacer Chadli and James Morrison KEY FACT: This is the most - played fixture in PL history without a home win MATCH ODDS: WBA 15/8 Draw 11/5 Leicester 6/4 bet365 Pick: Leicester to win @ 6/4 ANDY SAYS: I just don't see how my old mate Alan Pardew gets out of this, away win... 0 - 2 GRAEME SAYS: Leicester are a very good team, they should take the three points here... 1 - 3 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Jamie Vardy should be having a party in your portfolio

With Ocon in P6 and Perez in P7, the latter asked over team radio whether he was allowed to engage in a wheel - to - wheel battle with his team - mate at Suzuka, but was promptly denied because of the incidents between the pair throughout the season.

A furious Esteban Ocon demanded his team mate Sergio Perez receive race bans for both of the incidents between the pair at Spa.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his running mate claimed the Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, but the political neophytes challenging the pair captured a high enough percentage of the vote to demonstrate a measurable level of discontent.

The strongest Democratic ticket would probably consist of a Southern or Midwestern centrist like Mark Warner or Evan Bayh paired with a Western running mate like Bill Richardson.

He will hit the campaign trail for his running mate tomorrow with a pair of rallies in North Carolina, according to a schedule released by the Trump / Pence campaign late Saturday.

«The fact is, Ghanaians have seen Amissah Arthur to be very incompetent as the Vice President to President Mahama and so, our believe which has sprung out of a research is that, his pair again with President Mahama as his running mate can only reduce the votes of NDC drastically,» they also argued.

Scientists at the University allowed each pair of male zebra finches to mate with a female bird so that the long and short sperm from the males could compete to fertilize the female's eggs.

Though this strategy did not result in hybrid pairings, it did seem to help the Ross's gulls develop their mating displays, which may improve their performance when it really counts and members of their own species are available.

Patterns of parental care and productivity of different combinations of male - female pairs from the same or different selection lines were then examined to see whether selection on mating behavior led to a correlated, co-evolutionary response in parental care behavior.

Both the duration of an individual copulation, and the overall time a mating pair spent copulating, were increased if the female performed fellatio.

During mating, the females reached over to lick the base of the male's penis in 14 of the 20 pairs that copulated.

Mates gained often have to be retained to reap the adaptive rewards inherent in pair - bonding — an evolutionary hallmark of our species.»

As a first test, the researchers implanted electrodes into the brains of females to identify the circuitry activated when they naturally formed a pair bond and mated.

But now, a study shows that some female birds can benefit by pairing with males of another species — as long as they sneak in some same - species matings on the sly.

He did so by dressing male frogs «in tiny pairs of waxed taffeta trousers,» then mating them with females.

The biologists isolated pairs of mating flies, forcing them to be monogamous.

The females» loss of interest after a single mating suggests that if they could be fooled into pairing with mutant males — laboratory - reared to generate sterile offspring — they might duck out of the mating game for several egg cycles, or perhaps permanently.

Some recent studies indicate that facial resemblance between couples was a strong driving force among the mechanisms of assortative mating: human couples resemble each other significantly more than would be expected from random pair formation.

While on exhibit, several pairs mated daily and produced multiple clutches of eggs, giving the team the opportunity to observe habits of brooding females as well.

In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

Mimicking this familiarity in zoos could also encourage unwilling pairs of pandas to mate, Charlton says.

It has been known for decades that many pair - bonded bird species engage in extra-pair matings, and up to half the eggs of any brood may result from this.

In a study published in Nature, geneticist Andrés Bendesky of Harvard University and his colleagues worked with two kinds of mice that are genetically similar but differ in their pairing behavior: a subspecies of oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus) form monogamous pairs, whereas deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) mate with multiple partners.

Finally, in seven of the nine pairs, the turtles are in direct contact along the edge of their shells just above their tails — and in two of those pairs, the male's tail wraps below the female's shell in mating position.

We had a mating pair of adorable little Eastern screech owls on loan from a zoo.

«This is the first study to examine mate choice among wild - spawning fish of both hatchery and wild origin, and the results suggest that greater diversity of immune genes between wild - born pairs of coho salmon may increase offspring survival,» said Amelia Whitcomb, who did the research as a master's student at OSU and is lead author on the publication.

Conquering the divide and mating with a female after just six hours of her company can form a lifelong pair - bond between voles.

PAIR - BOND Just 24 hours in each other's company without mating can be enough to bond a pair of prairie voles for lPAIR - BOND Just 24 hours in each other's company without mating can be enough to bond a pair of prairie voles for lpair of prairie voles for life.

Other factors, including size and timing of return to fresh water, also determined mate pair reproductive success.

The researchers then compared reproductive success, defined as the number of adult offspring returns, from three different categories of naturally spawning mate pairs: two wild parents, two hatchery - reared parents, and a hatchery - reared / wild parent pair.

As the snow pack begins to recede across the Sierras, now is the time mating pairs of Yosemite toads seek out pools with the right mix of length and width, depth, vegetation and temperature to bring forth the next generation of toadlets.

They even filmed one mother - son pair in the act of mating.

Like many other species of anglerfish, C. jordani forms a permanent pair bond — once a male finds a mate, he bites into her, eventually fusing with her tissue and gaining sustenance through her blood stream.

Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because this species is one of the few to mate for life.