Decoupling social status and status certainty effects on health in macaques: a network approach by Jessica J. Vandeleest, Brianne A. Beisner, Darcy L. Hannibal, Amy C. Nathman, John P. Capitanio, Fushing Hsieh, Edward R. Atwill, Brenda McCowan

“…Social status is one aspect of social life that is made up of multiple structural (humans: income, education; animals: mating system, dominance rank) and relational components (perceived social status, dominance interactions). …”
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Case report: Filarial infection of a parti-coloured bat: Litomosa sp. adult worms in abdominal cavity and microfilariae in bat semen by Jiri Pikula, Vladimir Piacek, Hana Bandouchova, Marie Bartlova, Sarka Bednarikova, Romana Burianova, Ondrej Danek, Ondrej Danek, Petr Jedlicka, Sarka Masova, Monika Nemcova, Veronika Seidlova, Katerina Zukalova, Jan Zukal

“…Mildly engorged argasid mite larvae attached to the bat skin proved negative for filarial DNA and the adult filarial worms proved negative for endosymbiont Wolbachia.ConclusionWhile the standard filarial life cycle pattern involves a vertebrate definitive host and an invertebrate vector, represented by a blood-sucking ectoparasite, our finding suggests that microfilariae of this nematode species may also be semen-borne, with transmission intensity promoted by the polygynous mating system of vespertilionid bats in which an infected male mates with many females during the autumn swarming. …”
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The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing by Tezenas, Emilie, Giraud, Tatiana, Véber, Amandine, Billiard, Sylvain

“…We investigated the impact of recombination between the two loci and of the mating system (outcrossing, intra and inter-tetrad selfing) on the maintenance of the mutation. …”
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Insight Study on the Comparison between Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and Its Bulk Impact on Reproductive Performance, Antioxidant Levels, Gene Expression, and Histopathology of Testes... by Amira A. Goma, Hossam G. Tohamy, Sara E. El-Kazaz, Mohamed M. Soliman, Mustafa Shukry, Ahmed M. Elgazzar, Rashed R. Rashed

“…Finally, the male rats’ sexual behavior and their pup’s performance were determined in a monogamous mating system. Rats were then anesthetized and sacrificed for semen characteristics evaluation and tissue collection for antioxidant and hormones analysis, gene expression, and histopathological examination. …”
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Inheritance of seedling heat tolerance and maturity traits in diallel F1 hybrids of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) by ASHOK KUMAR YADAV, M S NARWAL, RAJESH KUMAR ARYA

“… A half-diallel mating system involving ten parents was used in the present study to determine the nature of gene action and genetic parameters in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) …”
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Combining Abilities, Heterosis, Growth Performance, and Carcass Characteristics in a Diallel Cross from Black-Bone Chickens and Thai Native Chickens by Piriyaporn Sungkhapreecha, Vibuntita Chankitisakul, Monchai Duangjinda, Wuttigrai Boonkum

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the combining abilities and heterosis for the growth performance and carcass characteristics in crosses between Hmong black-bone (HB), Chinese black-bone (CB), and Thai native (TN) chickens using a mating system diallel crossing. Nine crossbred chickens including HB × HB, CB × CB, TN × TN, HB × TN, TN × HB, CB × HB, HB × CB, TN × CB, and CB × TN, were tested. …”
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Genetic architecture of various agromorphological and some quality traits in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) by PRADEEP KUMAR, GYANENDRA SINGH, DEVI SINGH, ANIL SIROHI

“…It may therefore be concluded that these parental lines could be used as donors for improving both the components following biparental mating or diallel selective mating system could be the best breeding methodology followed by early generation selection for improvement in these traits. …”
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Lactation modeling and the effects of rotational crossbreeding on milk production traits and milk-spectra-predicted enteric methane emissions by Gustavo Martínez-Marín, Hugo Toledo-Alvarado, Nicolò Amalfitano, Luigi Gallo, Giovanni Bittante

“…Of these cows, 620 were obtained from a 3-breed (Holstein, Montbéliarde, and Viking Red) rotational mating system, and the rest were purebred Holsteins. …”
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KERAGAMAN GENETIK MERBAU (Intsia bijuga O.Ktze) DAN IMPLIKASINYA BAGI PROGRAM PEMULIAAN by , MAHFUDZ,MP, , Prof. Dr. Mohammad Na'iem, M.Agr.

“…The research was divided into four stages involving: 1) the isozyme genetic diversity analysis and population s structure of merbau, 2) analysis on merbau mating system , 3) growth and genetic parameter of merbau, and 4) the relationship on isozyme genetic diversity and growth. …”

Biología reproductiva de cinco especies ornitófilas en un fragmento de bosque caducifolio secundario en Venezuela by C Grases, N Ramírez

“…<br>The floral biology, the pollination biology and the mating system were studied in two native and three introduced species of an arboretum in Venezuela. …”
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Factors affecting gene-frequencies in some populations of Cepaea by Murray, J

“…</p> <p>In Chapter 4 the influence of the mating system on the effective population size of <em>C. nemoralis</em> is discussed. …”

Growth Performance of Thamari Sheep in Yemen by Al-Nokhaif, Abdullah Ali Abdullah

“…These could be improved by increasing number of lambs born per ewe and growth performance of lambs, which may be achieved by using an optimum mating system in parallel with improved management and feeding. …”
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Demografía y ecología de anidación de la iguana verde, Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae), en dos poblaciones explotadas en la Depresión Momposina, Colombia by Eliana M. Muñoz, Angela M. Ortega, Brian C. Bock, Vivian P. Páez

“…The adult sex ratio (1:2.5 males:females) agreed well with other reports in the literature based upon observation of adult social groups, and probably results from the polygynous mating system in this species rather than a real demographic skew. …”
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