Male mating behaviour and ejaculate composition
Retention of Ejaculate by Drosophila melanogaster Females Requires the Male-Derived Mating Plug Protein PEBme
... sperm and is slowly released into the female’s circulation, altering her behavior (Liu and Kubli 2003; Peng et al. 2005; Ravi Ram and Wolfner 2009). Thus, decreased receptivity persists when females contain stored sperm. ...
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Targeting male mosquito mating behaviour for malaria control
... of male mating biology is instrumental in the implementation of new approaches based on the release of either conven- tional sterile or genetically engineered ...of male biology could also lead to ...
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Male mating biology
... sexual behaviour of male anopheline ...of male sexual development and mating biology can be pieced ...however mating is not dependent on the presence of mature sper- matozoa ...peak ...
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Male age is associated with extra-pair paternity, but not with extra-pair mating behaviour
... copulation behaviour. A male house sparrow displays by approaching a female, liting his wings slightly, hopping around her vigorously, and vocalising continuously before attempting to mount her 49 .... ...
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Interdependent effects of male and female body size plasticity on mating behaviour of predatory mites
... in mating disruption than small ...If male emale competition and female choice were aligned, standard- sized males would have been the first ...with male body size, which was obviously due to the more ...
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Mating behaviour and the effects of parasites on reproductive success in male Columbian ground squirrels ("Spermophilus columbianus")
... Additionally, negative impacts on host reproductive success have been linked to parasite abundance, particularly in populations of song birds (Fitze et al., 2004; O’Brien and Dawson, 2005; Richner et al., 1993). In the ...
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Ethology. Me against who? Male guppies adjust mating behaviour according to their rival s presence and attractiveness.
... their mating decisions 34 to take account of the presence and the phenotype of their ...influence male mating behaviour; 2) How 36 important is the attractiveness of the rival in shaping a ...
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Harvesting changes mating behaviour in European lobster
... a male should have lower chances of surviving and successfully mate the following year, relative to a similar sized male in the ...affecting mating patterns, but we only compare the trait ...
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Better mate in the shade: enhancement of male mating behaviour in the cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora, in a UV rich environment
... UV-dependent behaviour. Here we report the mating behaviour of male cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora, in environments with varying content of UV ...of male mating ...
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Young male mating success is associated with sperm number but not with male sex pheromone titres
... for mating success, while we found no evidence for a significant role of natural variation in MSPs within one age class for female mating ...of male behaviour in this species [43, 56, 57, ...
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Nocturnal mating behaviour and dynamic male investment of copulatory time in the Southern Blue-Ringed Octopus, Hapalochlaena maculosa (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae)
... and male-female copulation attempts, being frequency data, were analysed using GLMs fitted to a Poisson ...of male- male mount attempts to male-female mount attempts within different levels of ...
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Inbreeding alters the chemical phenotype and mating behaviour of a beetle
... Germany Mating between closely related individuals is often associated with fitness ...tested mating probabilities in no choice bioassays with different combinations of outbred and inbred ...tested ...
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flow, epididymis mass and mating behaviour in adult rams
... in male sheep, even in the presence of high concen¬ trations of testosterone, LH and FSH, spermatogenesis may not be fully activated and may require the participation of ...
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The Population Dynamical Implications of Male-Biased Parasitism in Different Mating Systems
... between male-biased and unbiased parasitism, in terms of the population’s ...to male-biased ...in male and female densities between cohorts is therefore ...mortalities, male-biased parasitism ...
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Male Mating Rate Is Constrained by Seminal Fluid Availability in Bedbugs, Cimex lectularius
... of male accessory gland fluid [43] or costs of sperm storage [53,54] that depend on total ejaculate volume transferred, or copulation duration, not on the number of matings per ...bedbug, ejaculate ...
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Income and capital breeding in males: energetic and physiological limitations on male mating strategies
... acquiring mating opportunities, and a growing number of studies have shown that energetic costs of male reproduction are typically very high and in mammals can often exceed those of lactating females (Lane ...
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Mating behaviour in the blotched blue tongued lizard, Tiliqua nigrolutea, in captivity
... the mating period, and continuously until the day’s end once we saw the first sign of interest of a male in a ...the male lizard which located the female for mating by following her scent ...
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Ejaculate allocation by male sand martins, Riparia riparia
... each ejaculate was an indepen- dent measure of expenditure was implicit in the ¢rst analysis, ...of ejaculate expen- ...of ejaculate expenditure in the ¢rst analysis were not strictly ...lower ...
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MALE PHENOTYPES AND MATING EFFICIENCY IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
... Also, mutants with specific defects in the male were sought by establishing superficially wild-type hermaphrodite stocks after mutagenesis a n d testing the males segregated[r] ...
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Ram Mating Behaviour under Different Social Conditions
... the mating ram in SC2 became excited after viewing the competitor ram standing outside and directly went for mating with very little pre-courtship ...
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