Reviewer 1: A robust response is parameter dependent in both classes of systems, but some qualitative traits make them considerably different and these differences should be taken into account.
To test this, we allowed different classes of traits to produce different evolutionary histories, that is, we unlinked the topologies across partitions of the data.
According to cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman, there are two main classes of traits that define human attention: the selective and the intensive.
In accordance with the four different classes of traits (weights, amino acids, acylcarnitines, phospho- & sphingolipids), the traits split in four distinct clusters in our AWM.
"Class 2" daf-2 mutants exhibit dauer-like traits as adults, while "class 1" mutants do not, yet both classes of mutants have extended lifespan [ 75, 93].
Here we explore the genetic and genomic basis of a class of traits that is both novel and highly diverse, in a group of organisms that is ecologically complex and experimentally tractable: horned beetles.
Here we present and apply the first genomic resources to advance the study of a class of traits that is both novel and highly diverse in a group of organisms that is ecologically complex and experimentally tractable: beetle horns and horned beetles.
However, Tehrani and Collard [21] noted that one class of traits was more likely to circulate among groups.
We found similar patterns for mouse gene expression levels, Arabidopsis life-history traits, and yeast morphological phenotypes, implying that this segregation of buffering effects is not limited to any one particular class of traits or species.
Moreover, the class of traits (e.g., life history, morphological) may not be equally affected (Charmantier and Garant 2005).
