Sentence examples for fitness implications from inspiring English sources

Tests of the fitness implications of parasite-specific immune responses in Darwin's finches are urgently needed.

In ectotherms like damselflies that forage and mate in flight, there are obvious fitness implications of a higher cold resistance in the adult stage.

The clear effect of thermal stress on embryonic transcription profiles supports the idea that the host plays an important role in coral thermotolerance [29], [74], [75], [76], though the fitness implications of this response are not yet known.

The predictability and fitness implications of high intra-brood variation in post-hatching offspring mortality driven primarily by hatching order (and therefore ovulation order) should strongly influence how mothers differentially tailor investment toward, allocate resources to, and manipulate sex of simultaneously dependent sibling eggs [11] [17].

These interactions could have potential fitness implications for both the host (morbidity and/or mortality) and the parasite (transmission).

The observed fitness implications of deviations from standard male body size suggest that the difference in male body size plasticities of P. persimilis and N. californicus is adaptive.

Both strategies have direct fitness implication: 1) to maintain activities at a lower body size during the mating season and 2) to preserve an optimal wintering muscle mass and function.

The rates and properties of new mutations affecting fitness have implications for a number of outstanding questions in evolutionary biology.

A negative intersexual correlation for fitness has profound implications for models of sexual selection via 'good genes' benefits.

The role that neighboring cells can have on each others' fitness also has implications for drug targeting.

Eyre-Walker, A. Genetic architecture of a complex trait and its implications for fitness and genome-wide association studies.