Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters are a family of cation antiporters occurring in most organisms from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. This family constitutes one of the largest transporter families in plants, with, for example, more than 50 MATE genes in the Arabidopsis genome. Moreover, MATE transporters are involved in a wide variety of physiological functions throughout p...

Mate-guarding is an important determinant of male reproductive success in a number of species. However, it is known to potentially incur costs. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of mate-guarding on male physiological stress and aggression in long-tailed macaques, a species in which males mate-guard females to a lesser extent than predicted by the Priority of Access model (Po...

marriage and mate selection is one of the most important events in the social life which has been observed in various forms in different eras and societies. to achieve this, using qualitative content analysis, all marriages mentioned in the shahnameh were analyzed. the results show that the kings and heroes as the class of iranian society in the shahnameh, for finding a matching partner, person...

In many vertebrate systems, early experience has been linked to the learning of speciesspecific traits that are subsequently assessed during mate choice, thus ensuring conspecific matings. In invertebrate systems, however, early experience was not thought to play a role in mate choice until a recent study using Schizocosa uetzi Stratton 1997 wolf spiders demonstrated that females mate more read...