dimorphism

How To Use dimorphism In A Sentence

• Because intra- and intersexual selection can affect traits either jointly or separately, differences in sexual selection can provide insight into patterns of dimorphism between species.
• Predictions from the above hypotheses are not mutually exclusive, and associations between protandry and sexual dimorphism may be promoted by complex interactions between the suggested mechanisms acting in concert.
• Coupled with the lack of evidence for sexual dimorphism, we conclude that the simplest explanation of the diversity of plate patterns in stegosaurs is species recognition, a function also noted by Carpenter.
• Common yellowthroats are socially monogamous warblers that exhibit strong sexual dimorphism.
• These variables fishers and Bayes discriminant functions to distinguish sexual dimorphism the three strains.
• When the tests for dimorphism are now applied to these adults, it is clear that they are in fact dimorphic in just the same manner as other Jurassic ammonites.
• However, the degree of dimorphism in some clades of mammals, including perissodactyls, does not correlate with the degree of polygyny.
• Skuas and jaegers also display reversed size dimorphism to a similar degree to raptor species that feed on carrion, insects, reptiles, or mammals, but are less dimorphic than those that feed exclusively on birds.
• In some species such sexual dimorphism occurs year-round and might be explained by intersexual differences in foraging, dominance or habitat use.
• Songbirds like warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks, and sparrows are far from the only birds that display dimorphism.