Thus, their approach is biased toward seed genes.
We note that the EST information available for canola is biased towards seed coat and embryo tissues, which likely limited our ability to identify a complete set of WRKY genes for this species.
To prevent experimenter bias, seed plating and phenotype scoring were conducted by a single scientist fully blind with regard to genotype identity.
Accordingly, we recently helped validate a Brassica amplicon microarray representing about 10,000 unigenes which was designed using EST sequences biased for seed-derived cDNAs [ 31].
These archipelagos of small fragments and forest edge habitat are currently dominated by a small subset of pioneer trees, retain less than half of the tree species richness of the forest interior [19], and receive an impoverished seed rain biased towards smaller seeds [34].
Although this study measured only bird-mediated seed dispersal, this result suggests that not only is seed rain less frequent, less species rich and biased towards smaller seeded plants, but without native frugivores, seeds may also be dispersed into different microclimate conditions because of differences in habitat use among native and introduced frugivores.
To help maintain consistency, and to reduce any potential for interviewer bias seeding questions common to all the focus groups and semi-structured interviews were used to facilitate discussion.
Such interactions would not generally be identified by target prediction programs, which are biased toward canonical seed interactions, whereas our findings support their reliability.
In the absence of the native bird, seed rain was less frequent, less species rich, and biased towards smaller seeded plants.
This could be explained mainly by management practices (biased distribution of seeds and fertilisers by broadcast spreaders), whereas light reduction probably played a minimal role (explained only 2% of the crop yield variability).
The researcher observed that as the recruitment chain lengthened, the composition of sample at each location tended to reach a point of equilibrium where the composition of sample by age, educational level, and ethnicity were eventually stabilized, indicating that the final sample was not biased by the purposeful seed selection.
