Sentence examples for for selected traits from inspiring English sources
One school of thought holds that horses were domesticated in a few sites through breeding for selected traits, with the horses then being distributed to other regions.
Nevertheless these clones were often sufficiently old to have accumulated somatic mutations for selected traits (fig skin color) and at neutral loci (microsatellite markers).
Across all the pig chromosomes and for selected traits, we have carried out a combined analysis of the additive and dominant components of significant QTL positions.
Here we propose to make use of publicly available data generated by high throughput technologies to guide the choice of cell lines according to more objective criteria, such as gene expression signatures for selected traits.
The classical correlation approach compares the degree of association for selected traits between pairs of related individuals, with maximum correlation values that are assumed to be 1.0 for MZ co-twins and 0.5 for DZ co-twins.
Combined studies using GWA mapping, comparative analysis, linkage mapping, resequencing and functional characterization of candidate genes already enabled the identification of candidate genes for selected traits [ 66, 91, 128].
As signatures are further developed in future work, they have the potential to guide those engaged in crop improvement for selecting traits of agronomic and nutritional importance.
A parallel use of the data for gene association analysis can provide predictions for genetic markers of selected traits.
Modifying which bulls entered the cryobank by preserving semen for all the young bulls did not significantly alter the results of scenarios b3 and d3, either for the selected traits or for kinship evolution (data not shown).
Therefore, for sexually selected traits the phenotypic optima for males and females often differ [ 63].
Our EST project was designed to simultaneously generate a library of putative genes for sexually selected traits and polymorphic markers for population level studies.
