Sentences with phrase «partners during mating»

«Edible love gifts may influence female behavior, suggests cricket study: Edible gifts given by male crickets to their female partners during mating contain unique proteins which could affect the females» behavior.»

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The results of this mosquito paternity test were definitive: females that got a dose of HP - I during sex and then were offered another mate within an hour remained loyal to their initial partners, while females that got no HP - I did not.

Such costs include: (1) metabolic energy that must be devoted to mating and meiosis; (2) energy and time expended locating a mating partner; (3) that only 50 % of parental genes are transmitted to any given progeny or that two individuals are required to produce one progeny (resulting in the so - called 2-fold cost of sex); and (4) the fact that two genomes that have run the gauntlet of adaptive selection are shuffled during the process, breaking apart well - adapted genomic configurations [57].

A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

Mating often occurs during southbound migration and can involve more than partner.

In the first, they looked at the connections between coalitional mate retention behaviour and how often people have sex with their partner during a typical week.