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...

progeny (see mating systems). 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...

copulating with females. The variation in mating success is quite large in lek mating systems with 70–80% of matings being attributed to only 10–20% of the...

polygynandry. Lek mating is frequently regarded as a form of polygyny, because one male mates with many females, but lek-based mating systems differ in that...

mating systems. Females are often polyandrous, breeding with two or more males at once, which is quite rare among birds. This multiple mating system leads...

M. (1997). "Variation in mating system among birds: ecological basis revealed by hierarchical comparative analysis of mate desertion". Proceedings of...

average, mate with three to four males during a mating season and mating males have more variation, mating with one to eight females during a mating season...

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...

defend mating access to females. Polygamy, or a polygamous mating system, is when both males and females mate with two or more partners. In this mating system...

Yeasts with the same mating types will not fuse with each other to form diploid cells, only with yeast carrying another mating type. Many species of...

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...

individuals to keep track of one another in the vast Arctic wilderness. The mating system of bears has variously been described as a form of polygyny, promiscuity...

is reproductively motivated, it is often termed mating or copulation; for most non-human mammals, mating and copulation occur at oestrus (the most fertile...

sap and rotten fruits. Aglais io employs a monogamous mating system, which means that they only mate with one partner for a period of time.[citation needed]...

Mating plugs are used by many species, including several primates, kangaroos, bees, reptiles, rodents, scorpions, bats, and spiders. Use of a mating plug...

population is panmictic. In genetics and heredity, random mating usually implies the hybridising (mating) of individuals regardless of any spatial, physical...

Disassortative mating (also known as negative assortative mating or heterogamy) is a mating pattern in which individuals with dissimilar phenotypes mate with one...

would be 9 mating types, each of which can mate with 4 other mating types. By multiplicative combination, it generates a vast number of mating types. As...

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...

is a drawback to this emergence system. For biological reasons, overall male mating frequency decreases as the mating season goes on. Therefore, early...

sexes can compensate for mating with non-preferred mates. For example, females deposit more proteinaceous eggs when mating with a lower quality male...

with their polygynous mating system. In a parasitic system, females lay eggs in a different species' nests, and in a polygynous system a female of the same...

behavioral ecology and sexual selection of animal mating systems, referring to the state of having only one mate at any one given time. In a human cultural context...

Mating balls are a brief gregarious structure resulting from a mating behaviour wherein a large number of individuals cluster together while mating. It...

mating is used. Mixed mating usually refers to the production of a mixture of self-fertilized (selfed) and outbred (outcrossed) seeds. Plant mating systems...

alternative mating strategy is a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy...

Tobago. In this mating system, female guppies prefer to mate with males with more orange body coloration. However, outside of a mating context, both sexes...

will make calls to attract mates and compete with other males. Like antler size, mating call quality is an indicator of mate potential. Red deer can distinguish...