Sentence examples for a selected trait from inspiring English sources
When a gene-controlling eye size (effectively neutral in a cave) is linked to a gene encoding an efficient metabolism (a selected trait), we see how genetic hitchhiking could account for regressive evolution in cave fish.
This suggests that nucleotide content is a selected trait.
This enhances the idea that evolvability, or the ability of finding beneficial or innovative mutations, could be a selected trait in bacterial sncRNAs.
Female ornamentation has long been interpreted as a by-product of a genetic correlation to a selected trait in males that has no function in females (Lande 1980).
In addition, the distribution of sequence polymorphisms in recombinants allowed us to map a selected trait to a particular region in the Drosophila mitochondrial genome.
With a prevalence of 40% for a selected trait, minimum detectable differences of 12.4% (PE) and 8.4% (DVT) are needed to achieve a power of at least 80%.
"This is one of the few cases of a sexually selected trait where a physiological cost has been demonstrated," says evolutionary biologist John Endler of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This alludes to a conflict between a sexually selected trait and the recognition of locally adapted males (in other studies on more distantly related taxa, this would be termed the species recognition component of mate choice, see [ 94, 95]).
Thus our finding of an isometric relationship in a sexually selected trait contradicts these traditional views on the effect of sexual selection on trait allometry [e.g. [ 15]].
Most studies on the signalling function of female ornaments have been carried out in species where the female ornament is a reduced form of a sexually selected trait in males, and ornamentation could be linked to female quality and fecundity, although results are mixed with some studies reporting no or negative relationships (reviewed in Amundsen 2000; Kraaijeveld et al. 2007; Clutton-Brock 2009).
We quantified and investigated the impacts of these key variables in a large-scale association study of a strongly selected trait of medical importance: pyrethroid resistance in the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.
