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What Makes It Difficult to Start an Intimate Relationship: A Taxonomy of the Reasons

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2021
Within the context of an evolutionary theoretical framework, the current research attempted to study the reasons that cause difficulties in starting an intimate relationship in the Greek cultural context. In particular, using qualitative research methods
Menelaos Apostolou
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Singing silver‐haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans)

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2023
Characterizing sounds produced by animals can lead to better understanding of their behavioral ecology and conservation. While considerable focus has been on signals used by bats for echolocation, there has been less emphasis on nonecholocation sounds ...
Cori L. Lausen   +6 more
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Selected Aspects of Reproductive Behavior of American Mink (Neovison vison) under Artificial Conditions

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Observation and behavioral analysis of animals can be one of the factors taken into consideration when assessing the welfare of animals kept in artificially created breeding conditions.
Beata Seremak   +3 more
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Mate value, intrasexual competition and sociosexual desire drive Brazilian women's well-being

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2021
Well-being (vs. ill-being) might function as an internal guide for approaching (vs. avoiding) situations, strategies, and achievements that ancestrally led to higher (vs. lower) reproductive success.
Anthonieta Looman Mafra   +4 more
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The Importance of Males to Bumble Bee (Bombus Species) Nest Development and Colony Viability

open access: yesInsects, 2020
Bumble bee population declines over the last decade have stimulated strong interest in determining causative factors and necessary conservation measures.
Joseph E. Belsky   +2 more
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Stress conditions promote Leishmania hybridization in vitro marked by expression of the ancestral gamete fusogen HAP2 as revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

open access: yeseLife, 2022
Leishmania are protozoan parasites transmitted by the bite of sand fly vectors producing a wide spectrum of diseases in their mammalian hosts. These diverse clinical outcomes are directly associated with parasite strain and species diversity.
Isabelle Louradour   +5 more
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Behavioral and Evolutionary Perspectives on Visual Lateralization in Mating Birds: A Short Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
The division of cognitive processing between the two hemispheres of the brain causes lateralized eye use in various behavioral contexts. Generally, visual lateralization is shared among vertebrates to a greater extent, with little interspecific variation.
Masayo Soma
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Mating failure [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2015
Greenway et al. introduce the concept of mating failure, the failure to produce offspring.
Greenway, E.V. (Ginny)   +2 more
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Gamma Ray Radiation Effects Emitted from Am-241 on Some Physiological Cases of Adult Rats [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2021
The aims of the present work are to find the effect of gamma rays radiation at three doses in m Gy/h as radiation doses rate for 55 days at 7h/day irradiation on sex ratio of male and female rats.
Yasir Al-Jawwady   +2 more
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Insulin-like peptides and the mTOR-TFEB pathway protect Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites from mating-induced death

open access: yeseLife, 2019
Lifespan is shortened by mating, but these deleterious effects must be delayed long enough for successful reproduction. Susceptibility to brief mating-induced death is caused by the loss of protection upon self-sperm depletion.
Cheng Shi   +2 more
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