consexual

English

Etymology

From con- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

consexual (comparative more consexual, superlative most consexual)

1. (biology) Of the same sex.
   • 1996 December 1, W. Wickler, K. Lunau, “How Do East African Bush Shrikes Laniarius funebris Recognize Male and Female Tutors During Gender Dialect Development?”, in Naturwissenschaften, volume 83, →DOI, pages 579b–c:

     If, in fact, in L. funebris there is no sex marker on the song elements themselves, then a young bird must be able to sex its tutor. The same is true if the individuals were predisposed to produce the total vocabulary of any population, or of both sexes in their own population, and then under experience had to suppress a sex-specific subset of that repertoire [7]. It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only.

   • 2001 July 1, John C. Maerz, Nova L. Panebianco, Dale M. Madison, “Effects of Predator Chemical Cues and Behavioral Biorhythms on Foraging, Activity of Terrestrial Salamanders”, in Journal of Chemical Ecology, volume 27, →DOI, page 1335:

     Experimental Protocol. We could not test all 48 salamanders simultaneously, so we randomly assigned salamanders to consexual pairs for testing and subsequent statistical comparison. Within a pair, one salamander was randomly assigned to the snake-soiled water treatment and the other to the unsoiled water treatment.

   • 2013 December 24, Tess Driessens, Beatrijs Vanhooydonck, Raoul Van Damme, “Deterring predators, daunting opponents or drawing partners? Signaling rates across diverse contexts in the lizard Anolis sagrei”, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, volume 68, →DOI, page 181a:

     We examined male signaling in a consexual context in two types of experiments. In the MI experiment, males were exposed to their mirror images (only visual cues) and in the MM experiment, males were exposed to real size-matched male opponents. We found overall similar display rates (DE, PU, HN) for both consexual experiments, which confirms the earlier finding that Anolis lizards use visual rather than chemical signals during social interactions (Jenssen 1977; Fleishman 1992; Jenssen et al. 1995; Forster et al. 2005). We further observed that A. sagrei males increased their PU frequency, but not their DE and HN rate during staged consexual interactions.

   • 2017 December 6, Gabriel Villar, Megan D. Wolfson, Abraham Hefetz, Christina M. Grozinger, “Evaluating the Role of Drone-Produced Chemical Signals in Mediating Social Interactions in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)”, in Journal of Chemical Ecology, volume 44, →DOI, page 2a:

     it has also been demonstrated that extracts from drone mandibular glands (DMG) or groups of live drones can attract other flying drones within apiaries (Lensky et al. 1985) and non-flying ambulating drones (Brandstaetter et al. 2014), suggesting an alternate chemically mediated mechanism for the formation and/or maintenance of DCAs and drone consexual attraction.

2. (botany) Having both male and female reproductive structures in a single individual.
   • 2023 October 11, N. Mini Raj, H. C. Vikram, V. A. Muhammed Nissa, E. V. Nybe, “Garcinia”, in Handbook of Spices in India: 75 Years of Research and Development, Singapore: Springer, →DOI, page 3014:

     Trees are polygamodioecious: There are male, female, and consexual trees. […] The species (Garcinia indica) has a very complex sexual system. Rawat and Bhatnagar (2005) considered this species as gynodioecious, whereas Rajasekharan and Ganeshan (2002) described it as polygamodioecious. Progenies of kokum raised from seeds segregate in the ratio: 37 males: 55 females: 8 consexual (Thatte and Deodhar 2012). Furthermore, male flowers are either pure males or with a pistillode; female flowers are either pure female or with staminodes (Bhaskaran and Krishnan 2012).

Noun

consexual (plural consexuals)

1. (biology) An individual of the same sex.
   • 2002 July 1, K. Dunlap, L. Oliveri, “Retreat site selection and social organization in captive electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus”, in Journal of Comparative Physiology A, volume 188, →DOI, page 473a:

     Group composition by sex was far more variable when tube density was low (0.5 tubes/fish) than when tube density was high (1 tube/fish) (Table 3). Males and females affiliated with consexuals at equal rates.

   • 2003 December 1, Troy A Baird, Laurie J Vitt, Teresa D Baird, William E Cooper, Jr., Janalee P Caldwell, Valentín Pérez-Mellado, “Social behavior and sexual dimorphism in the Bonaire whiptail, Cnemidophorus murinus (Squamata: Teiidae): the role of sexual selection”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology‎^[1], volume 81, number 11, →DOI:

     Brown males did not chase consexuals.

Translations

An individual of the same sex

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