A good functional group will have a mixture of complementary traits (e.g., a balance of cooperative people and free-riders: a negative frequency dependency process).
Discriminative bud set traits for QTL analysis were a list of complementary traits, which explain together a large part (% from PCA on this list of traits) of phenotypic variation observed for growth cessation and bud onset.
A civilization constitutes a durable social system of complementary traits.
A character's attitude is likely made up of complementary traits, which can lead to actions that are unexpected and could change the audience's perception of your character.
Furthermore, the negative correlations of OCI with genome size are never significantly different between complementary traits (e.g., HE vs. LE) for a given clade (supplementary table S6, Supplementary Material online).
Musically, it is believed that a complex intermingling of African and white folk-music elements occurred and that complementary traits of African music and white U.S. folksong reinforced each other.
Some individuals are couples unto themselves, fusing contrasting and complementary traits.
Developing complementary traits — like spontaneity for self-control, or open-mindedness for decisiveness — makes you a more wholly human leader, better able to handle complexity.
Scientific detachment and caution under dictatorship can be complementary traits, and in Merkel's case they were joined by the reticence, tinged with irony, of a woman navigating a man's world.
Physiological breeding crosses parents with different complex but complementary traits to achieve cumulative gene action for yield, while selecting progeny using remote sensing, possibly in combination with genomic selection.
To overyield, species must exhibit complementary traits in terms of, for example, light requirements/shade tolerance or root depth.
