How To Use Conspecific In A Sentence
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Insect nests have guards who deter entry by both conspecific and allospecific intruders.
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Comparative genetic analysis of the viral DNA from each isolate would be required to definitively ascertain the conspecificity of these viruses.
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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
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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.
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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.
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In the swordless platies, females also prefer males with artificially attached swords over conspecific males.
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In most areas, doves establish year-round feeding territories that are defended against conspecifics.
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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
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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
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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
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My work on moths dealt with the predominate mode of conspecific mate recognition in moths, the sex pheromone system.
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Research into animals' 'theory of mind' has tended to focus on the conspecific, rather than interspecific case.
The Times Literary Supplement
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MCZ 1102, the holotype skull of Triceratops "eurycepahlus" Shlaikjer 1935 (now considered conspecific with T. horridus).
Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts
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Females captured ovipositing exhibited the same choice when they were subjected to preference tests, regardless of whether the discriminations were made among conspecific plants or heterospecific plants.
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Similarly, the population must be effectively isolated from wintering conspecifics.
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In parasitoids, the presence of conspecific females should modify decisions of females confronted with already-parasitized hosts.
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The model considers a group of conspecific animals searching for food simultaneously.
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We investigated the signaling function of blue plumage in male blue grosbeaks to determine if structurally based coloration may act as a reliable signal of quality to conspecifics.
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When predators are omnivorous, prey may avoid predators that have fed on conspecific prey, but they may lack such a response if these same predators have consumed other food sources.
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There are increasing concerns about the risks of gene flow from transgenic cultivars to conspecific weeds.
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Frigatebirds may kill chicks and eggs of conspecifics and congeners.
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cultivated cabbage and wild cabbage are conspecific
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The size of a pair's territory and the extent to which they defend it from conspecifics depends on the species and the habitats.
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These results provide experimental confirmation that conspecific attraction occurs in at least one territorial songbird.
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Juvenile salmon clearly avoided kin when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics.
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If parents shape the linguistic environment of their offspring, and if we all shape the linguistic environments of our conspecifics (merely by talking to them!) then the possibility of a ˜linguistic ratchet effect™ is clearly open.
Innateness and Language
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When predators are omnivorous, prey may avoid predators that have fed on conspecific prey, but they may lack such a response if these same predators have consumed other food sources.
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Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics.
How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
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Much is made of whether it is a "real" quagga or not, but according to Jonathan Kingdon, in Volume 3 B of his magisterial 7- volume East African Mammals, the quagga is a mere race, conspecific with the common zebra.
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It kinda reminds me about why Dogg the bounty hunter (a "joe the plumber" conspecific. wow ...) complained about his son's Black girlfreind forcing him to give up a "way of life".
The Silent Change to Section 382 - Swampland - TIME.com
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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.
Archive 2006-10-01
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The probe prepared as described above can be used to assay test samples for conspecificity as follows.
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Morphological and molecular characters suggest conspecificity of all bisexual European and North African Artemia populations
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NOT because detailed, careful work has shown that the taxa really can be regarded as conspecific or congeneric.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics.
How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
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We collected green iguana eggs from the island of Curacao in the Caribbean, where green iguanas attain much smaller maximum body size compared to conspecifics in Panama.
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Thus, in this unsworded species, neither females nor males appear to prefer conspecifics of the other sex with swords to those with clear attachments.
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Smaller non-cannibalistic salamanders respond to conspecific cannibals as a threat, and presumably forage less to decrease the likelihood of being detected and eaten by the larger cannibal forms.
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Japanese queenless ants, Pristomyrmex pungens, have been observed defending their nests, food resources, and recruitment trails against other conspecific colony members.
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Relatively little is known of P. spathula behavior towards conspecifics or members of different species.
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Furthermore, protection of paternity does not explain why male Bucephala exclude conspecific females and subadults, congeners, and other species with similar diets from their territories.
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Everywhere I looked, however, I found that morphology and reproduction were the defining criteria for conspecificity.
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Their large eyes probably help them locate conspecifics and aid in visual communication, if any exists.
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Second, I review the scanty literature on whether vertebrate frugivores prefer fruits with presumably higher levels of ethanol over conspecific fruits with presumably lower levels of ethanol.
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Mills and Davenport (2002), The effect of a neighbouring conspecific versus the use of a mirror for the control of stereotypic weaving behaviour in the stabled horse.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle
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Although these data suggest conspecificity, we will refrain from a formal decision until further studies have been completed.
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Research into animals' 'theory of mind' has tended to focus on the conspecific, rather than interspecific case.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With the exception of African lions, female felids are intolerant of other conspecifics of the same gender.
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For some animals, the death of a conspecific is a little tinkle of the dinner bell.
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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By "conspecificity," I believe, Nabokov meant most of all that his "short stories are produced in exactly the same way as [his] novels and informed by their [a] uthor and his subtexts [italics added].
Golden Rule Jones
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Several functions have been postulated for the evolution of male pheromones, such as courtship, preventing interspecific mating, mating deterrent against conspecific males, predator repellent.
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Free-living territorial male song sparrows were exposed to either conspecific or heterospecific (control) males in an STI in spring and autumn.
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However, conspecific trees at different sites may differ in the pattern of growth rate with age.
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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
