Sentence examples for composite traits from inspiring English sources

These topics, as all of us know, are plagued with controversy and great minds in genetics have repeatedly said that looking into the genetic bases of such composite traits (many complex traits rolled into one) is an exercise in utter futility.

Also, when it is so difficult to find causal routes of even simple traits governed by only a few genes, how could anyone find the precise genetic and environmental root causes of composite traits that follow the infinite allele model (Kimura and Crow 1964)?

Calculation of the scores for the eight composite traits was based on linear score, weights, and defective traits.

Each trait has advantages and disadvantages but all are composite traits calculated using linear regressions on the component production traits.

Differences in variance distribution among the individual traits forming composite traits could lower the power to detect QTL.

The composite traits, number of capitula, seed output, and SPSS were generated using the original nontransformed data to maintain the link with fitness.

The concept of heritability is central to the controversy surrounding intelligence; but heritability of any complex trait (much less a composite trait) is an ephemeral unit of measurement influenced by thousands of genes and genomic components and myriad environmental and cultural factors.

Thus, we view female discrimination of males belonging to other populations than their own as a composite trait (i.e. the result of a joint action of several mate choice mechanisms) and use gene expression analysis to establish a candidate set of genes underlying this composite trait.

We have chosen to use one trait such as body size, which is known to affect fitness in many species (e.g. [19]), and which is a composite trait.

Together with earlier studies, these findings suggest that the common lizard's carotenoid-based colouration may be a composite trait, consisting of fixed (e.g. genetic) and environmentally elements, the latter reflecting the lizard's PSR.

That the combined mate choice mechanisms behind sexual isolation together represent a highly polygenic composite trait, including several gene clusters on the X chromosome, means that there are many possible and potentially rapid pathways to the evolution of stronger isolation.