Bromeliads display specialized pollination systems which involve particular floral traits and pollen vectors, from bees to hummingbirds and bats, in a relationship intended to promote pollen exchange and an outcrossing
mating system (Ackerman, 1986; Benzing, 2000).
Understanding
mating systems is particularly important for understanding the evolution of a species because it is the
mating system that determines how genes are passed from one generation to the next (Petrie et al.
In this study we investigated the
mating system of the Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus) in the Ore Mountains (Czech Republic).
Specific objectives included recording of flowering phenology, identification of pollinators, measuring pollinator visitation rates, recording population reproductive characteristics, and an estimation of the
mating system using experimental hand-pollinations.
We think that is when the human baculum would have disappeared because the
mating system changed at that point," Kit Opie, a researcher with the study at University College London, (https://www.
For many tree species,
mating system varies with reproductive biology and spatial genetic structure, both factors affecting the level and dynamics of genetic diversity, with evolutionary and conservation consequences (Schoen and Brown 1991).
The relationship between
mating system and simultaneous hermaphroditism in the coral reef fish, Hypoplectrus nigricans (Serranidae).
Its important to choose a
mating system that maintains the maximum genetic diversity possible, which will ensure the best chance that traits needed for our birds to thrive with our conditions and management practices, and to meet our production goals, will be expressed in some of the offspring.
In this article, we review recent progress in our understanding of ostrich reproductive behavior both in the wild and in farming environments, with a specific emphasis on female strategies to improve offspring fitness within the context of the ostrich polygynous
mating system.
Interestingly, to date, research on hybridization and
mating systems have remained largely separate fields, despite the potential importance of
mating system for the outcomes of hybridization and patterns of genetic variation across the genome.
Designed to be the smallest and most robust products in their class, the new connectors also have the highest fibre density -- based on the proven QN push-pull
mating system.
MATESOFT: a program for deducing parental genotypes and estimating
mating system statistics in haplodiploid species.
