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How To Use conspecific In A Sentence

• Insect nests have guards who deter entry by both conspecific and allospecific intruders.
• Comparative genetic analysis of the viral DNA from each isolate would be required to definitively ascertain the conspecificity of these viruses.
• Though these systems are described as communication, the central theoretical questions are whether the communicative utterances are referential and whether the utterers are mentally representing the referent, that is, whether the utterance is meaningful from the perspective of conspecifics. Animal Cognition
• We measured egr-1 in the auditory brainstem and its forebrain targets and found that conspecific whine-chucks elicited greater egr-1 expression than heterospecific whines in all but three regions. Elites TV
• A familiar sender is here defined as a conspecific that was housed in the same cage as the subject at the time of testing, or had been separated from the subject no longer than six months before the testing started. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• In the swordless platies, females also prefer males with artificially attached swords over conspecific males.
• In most areas, doves establish year-round feeding territories that are defended against conspecifics.
• And the time spent in the area with heterospecific mucus was not significantly different from the time spent in the area with conspecific mucus C in the figure. Archive 2006-12-01
• The Appenine shrew is endemic to Italy, and while formerly regarded by some as conspecific with the Common shrew, it is quite different, having a much shorter tail for example. The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking
• This species is strongly dichromatic, meaning that the males and females have distinctive plumage colours and patterns -- a characteristic that distinguishes it from the monochromatic Cyprus pied wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, with which it was formerly considered to be conspecific. Mystery bird: Pied wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka