The allostasis framework may have heuristic value because individual variation in costs of daily and seasonal routines, Ee + Ei, may determine how well they fare when encountering new habitats or competing with novel species.
Even in polygynous mammals under unstable environments, male-biased sex allocation by mothers in good condition will be predicted when females produce only a few offspring at once as A. argenteus in acorn-poor seasons, because individual variation in the lifetime reproductive success should be higher across males than across females (Trivers and Willard 1973).
However, different patients may assess the same sensory deficit dissimilarly, because of individual variations in anatomy and healing responses.
The assessment of growth potential is essential because of individual variations in timing, duration, and velocity of growth.
The application of the GINI method to identify germline mutations is challenging due to limitations including microarray sensitivity in detecting small fold changes, and because of individual variations in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay efficiency [ 24, 50, 56, 59, 60, 63].
Without an accelerated elimination procedure, it takes an average of 8 months to reach plasma concentrations <0.02 mg/L, although because of individual variations in drug clearance it may take as long as 2 years [ 134].
From the evolutionary viewpoint, personality can in general be related to fitness [4], because temporally stable individual variations in a suite of behavioural traits may drive important life-history tradeoffs in humans and in many animals [e.g. 5], [6] [10].
Because PAH DNA adducts reflect individual variations in exposure, absorption, metabolic activation, and DNA repair, they provide an informative biologic dosimeter that has been associated with risk of cancer (Bartsch et al. 1983; Pelkonen et al. 1980; Tang et al. 2001) and reproductive/developmental effects (Perera et al. 1998, 2007; Tang et al. 2006).
This "precision medicine" takes individual variations in our genes and environments into account.
Because of individual variation in body shape, controlling one dimension of size in each experiment necessarily left others imperfectly controlled.
