Thus, selection for general morphological shape may affect a suite of morphological characters correlated with that shape.
While our results recapitulate the well-known conclusion that proteins affecting immunity and genome defense pathways are more likely to fix adaptive mutations, we also find that proteins affecting a suite of cell signaling pathways that are important for metazoan development are also fixing adaptive mutations in the D. melanogaster lineage at a significantly higher rate than the genome average.
Climate change is, however, likely to affect a whole suite of traits, having a combined effect on viability and, ultimately, fitness.
It is reasonable to infer from the network structure that regulatory modifications at a limited number of focal genes can affect the expression of a suite of interacting partners.
The study uses a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze how a suite of variables affects C stocks, including tree and shrub species data, topographic variables (slope, elevation, and aspect), maps of soil and vegetation types, and remotely-sensed spectral data.
Chronic phase chagasic patients may die from one of a suite of mega syndromes affecting the heart, esophagus, or colon.
Analyses that fail to incorporate a suite of important mechanisms that affect vital rates will fail to predict accurately how species might respond to environmental shifts, and also fail to scale up to community dynamics.
To help understand road construction related diarrheal disease, Eisenberg et al. (2007) mapped a suite of distal environmental changes that can affect proximal environmental characteristics, which in turn can affect the transmission of enteric pathogens.
These studies roughly assess both life satisfaction and emotional state, using a suite of inquiries about particular types of affect to get at the latter.
The investigations at this site demonstrate that glacial outburst floods and glacier margin fluctuations produce a suite of sediments, landforms and environments that affect the hydrogeological system.
