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A mating system is a way in which a group is structured in relation to sexual behaviour. The precise meaning depends upon the context. With respect to animals, the term describes which males and females mate under which circumstances. Recognised systems include monogamy, polygamy (which includes polygyny, polyandry, and polygynandry), and promiscuity, all of which lead to different mate choice outcomes and thus these systems affect how sexual selection works in the species which practice them. In plants, the term refers to the degree and circumstances of outcrossing. In human sociobiology, the terms have been extended to encompass the formation of relationships such as marriage.
A matingsystem is a way in which a group is structured in relation to sexual behaviour. The precise meaning depends upon the context. With respect to...
progeny (see matingsystems). For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool. In some...
increases the frequency of mating among distantly related individuals, and is achieved mainly by dispersal during the mating season. Such a strategy is...
M. (1997). "Variation in matingsystem among birds: ecological basis revealed by hierarchical comparative analysis of mate desertion". Proceedings of...
copulating with females. The variation in mating success is quite large in lek matingsystems with 70–80% of matings being attributed to only 10–20% of the...
compete, but not large enough to risk other males trying to mate with them. During the mating season female anacondas release pheromones to attract males...
matingsystems. Females are often polyandrous, breeding with two or more males at once, which is quite rare among birds. This multiple matingsystem leads...
wife') is a matingsystem in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a single male. Systems where several...
mating territories in which the females’ only purpose for visiting these territories is for copulation. Variation within European fallow deer mating systems...
give rise to the next generation. Mating in fungi is a complex process governed by mating types. Research on fungal mating has focused on several model species...
individuals to keep track of one another in the vast Arctic wilderness. The matingsystem of bears has variously been described as a form of polygyny, promiscuity...
Disassortative mating (also known as negative assortative mating or heterogamy) is a mating pattern in which individuals with dissimilar phenotypes mate with one...
behavioral ecology and sexual selection of animal matingsystems, referring to the state of having only one mate at any one given time. In a human cultural context...
population is panmictic. In genetics and heredity, random mating usually implies the hybridising (mating) of individuals regardless of any spatial, physical...
sap and rotten fruits. Aglais io employs a monogamous matingsystem, which means that they only mate with one partner for a period of time.[citation needed]...
is a drawback to this emergence system. For biological reasons, overall male mating frequency decreases as the mating season goes on. Therefore, early...
Mating balls are a brief gregarious structure resulting from a mating behaviour wherein a large number of individuals cluster together while mating. It...
defend mating access to females. Polygamy, or a polygamous matingsystem, is when both males and females mate with two or more partners. In this mating system...
territory. This matingsystem is an example of male-territory-visiting polygamy. Triggerfishes exhibit other types of matingsystems, as well, such as...
different mating types.[citation needed] Reproduction by mating types is especially prevalent in fungi. Filamentous ascomycetes usually have two mating types...
female has already mated or not. This species primarily mates via the lek system, in which there are aggregations of males on small mating territories. When...
females. This type of matingsystem can be referred to as polygyny, where one male has multiple female mates, but each female mates with only one or a few...
Tobago. In this matingsystem, female guppies prefer to mate with males with more orange body coloration. However, outside of a mating context, both sexes...
Cichlids mate either monogamously or polygamously. The matingsystem of a given cichlid species is not consistently associated with its brooding system. For...
with their polygynous matingsystem. In a parasitic system, females lay eggs in a different species' nests, and in a polygynous system a female of the same...
female hypergamy occurs because women have greater lost mating opportunity costs from monogamous mating (given their slower reproductive rate and limited window...
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