Sentences with phrase «reproductive state»

Once you stop using birth control pills, your hormones begin returning to their normal reproductive state, permitting conception to occur.

These findings are important for understanding the evolution of signals of female reproductive state, how they influence male and female mating strategies, and how decoupling visual signals of fecundity from ovulation may affect intersexual conflict.

Males targeted the orange painted females more frequently than white ones, regardless of the females» actual reproductive state.

But studies on human odor in the 1990s turned up telltale signs that men may have subtle ways of gauging their partners» reproductive state.

But vocalisations in other species with similar social structure is known to convey information about things like age, gender, sexual arousal, dominance or reproductive states, she says.

«This really opens the door to do a broad - scale assessment of an animal's health without having to get a blood sample,» says Hunt, who pioneered the analysis of whale blow and poop for hormones that indicate sex, maturity, reproductive state, and stress level.

Killing of a female's young by a new male will speed her return to a reproductive state and allow him to raise his own young.

Mutations in TFL1 and Dt1 both result in the shoot apical meristem (SAM) switching from vegetative to reproductive state to initiate terminal flowering and thus produce determinate stems.