In this context, we can move beyond the usual phenotype-ecology correlation approach, assessing the likelihood of different evolutionary scenarios through recent model-based approaches for comparative analyses [ 27, 28].
These correlations suggest that opsin gene expression varies adaptively in cichlids, especially since some expression-ecology correlations have evolved independently among cichlids in different lakes [ 27].
The study, published in the December issue of Ecology, found a strong correlation between fertility and social class.
It would be a first attempt to reveal molecular mechanisms underlying the correlation between ecology of microbes and properties of their proteomes.
A strong correlation between feeding ecology and craniodental morphology in the Ursidae lineage was reported by Sacco & Van Valkenburgh [ 34] and Christiansen [ 28].
Due to the uneven distribution of currently available fungal genomes across the phylogenetic and ecological diversity of fungi, and because many symbiotic taxa are difficult to culture, we used a PCR-sequencing approach to detect GH32 gene presence and evaluate correlations between phylogeny, ecology and GH32 distribution.
To evaluate the correlation between leaf-living ecology and reduced apothecium morphology across ascomycetes, BayesTraits [15] was used.
After a run of 1 million iterations in BayesTraits [15] to estimate the correlation between leaf-living ecology and reduced morphology, the following harmonic means of the marginal likelihood were obtained, with virtually no difference between runs: ∼71.50 for the model in which leaf-living ecology and reduced morphology are independent, and ∼56.50 for the model in which they are dependent.
Anopheles gambiae reared in semi-natural MalariaSphere conditions in Mbita Point Field Station of International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology were used to determine the correlation between mosquito age and expression of candidate genes.
To perform CCA we used a combination of CANOCO's manual forward selection feature, Pearson correlation, and knowledge of the ecology of the river to select the environmental variables that could serve as proxies of others.
Since we nevertheless found correlations between these systems and ecology, we felt it would be useful to point them out.
