FishBase, run by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, contains information on traits such as taxonomy and geographic distribution.
A new website, for example, will offer information on traits, distributions, and evolutionary relationships of plants and fungi.
We used previously reported information on trait-associated genes [ 7, 20, 21].
We obtained information on trait-associated genes from previous reports to analyze the Kuchinoshima-Ushi breed genome [ 7].
There is currently no available QTL information on traits related to coppice growth.
In order to capture all information on traits such as this, TO alone was not enough.
Recently, there has been an effort to collect more comprehensive phenotypic information on traits such as morphology, behavior, physiology, or gene expression (Houle 2010).
In the case of TO, it describes plant traits but essential information on each trait such as method, scale and scale value is missing.
However, in practice, most traits recorded on phenotyped sibs and candidates are genetically correlated, meaning that measurements on one trait carry information on other traits.
