All these results suggest that the constitutively high expressed unigenes in sand rice transcriptome are candidate genes relevant for desirable adapted traits.
Lake whitefish in North America are taxonomically complex, have a widespread geographic distribution, and display high variability within and among populations in phylogeographic history and locally adapted traits.
Hence, we avoid any discussion of 'how different is different' for populations with unique adaptations to be considered nonexchangeable (sensu Crandall et al. 2000), and focus only on the more tractable question of whether locally adapted traits are independently derived.
Since natural selection shapes phenotypes and genotypes in favor of adapted traits, the Ka/Ks ratio of less than 1 for a large number of contigs could be a result of either stabilizing or diversifying selection within both subspecies, depending upon the magnitude of the ratio.
We mapped fire-adapted traits across a landscape by categorizing trees into two classes, pyrophiles and pyrophobes, and applying this classification to a geospatial layer of witness-tree points centered on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.
To the contrary, CP7 was found to be more transcribed than CP8 in feline T. foetus suggesting that the increased expression of CP7 in feline genotype is a host-specific adapted virulence trait.
Through "the relentless culling" of "the less well adapted," only traits that favor survival -- including increases in brain size and complexity -- are passed along to descendants.
Furthermore, the framework we have developed including the statistical methods can be readily adapted to traits with different distributions, e.g., normally distributed phenotypes.
The plant version of the animal model may be adapted to traits measured on S0-derived seed bulks, such as grain quality or yield.
These results indicate that both the taxonomy and conservation prioritization of the A. mormo complex should be reassessed, both with a more fine-grained genetic survey and a greater focus on locally adapted phenotypic traits.
Regardless of the relative spawning success of farmed and wild males, both reproductive phenotypes have demonstrated the potential for the introgression of farmed genes into wild populations and the disruption of locally adapted phenotypic traits (Hindar et al. 2006; Garcia de Leaniz et al. 2007; Fraser et al. 2010).
