One is that traumatic insemination is an adaptation to the development of the mating plug, a reproductive mechanism used by many species.

Much was learned about plant sexuality by unravelling the reproductive mechanisms of mosses, liverworts and algae.

Automixis is a term that covers several reproductive mechanisms, some of which are parthenogenetic.

A spore is a biological reproductive mechanism.

The primitive mammals gained a new advantage by developing reproductive mechanisms that offered increased protection to the young.

Your race and ours are, perhaps, no more than each other's reproductive mechanisms.

The breeding cycle of these frogs is affected by extrinsic environmental conditions and intrinsic reproductive hormonal mechanisms.

These species are useful for testing hypotheses of the reproductive mechanisms underlying speciation.

Examination of other species within the Epioblasma genus may further reveal unusual reproductive mechanisms.

They take over individual cells in a host body, and coopt those cells' reproductive mechanisms to generate copies of the virus.