males
Example Sentences
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The female flies only mate once, so sterilized males help suppress the population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
For example, the process often involves separating the insects by sex to isolate the males.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Some males fathered more calves than others, but the difference was not as extreme as researchers had expected.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Vector control districts serving Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties have irradiated males and released them in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
By breeding normal flies with mutants—mating white-eyed males with red-eyed females, say—Morgan and his students could track the inheritance of traits across multiple generations.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
