The FFM thus represents a structure of personality traits consisting of five broad bipolar domains or dimensions that are defined by clusters of interrelated specific traits.
The concept of an evolved grade-specific social style implies that within a species, interrelated social traits are robust despite variation in the environment.
Distinctive social styles, that is, sets of interrelated social traits, are discernible and categorized into four social grades, ranging from despotic to more tolerant [de Waal, 1989; Thierry, 2000; Thierry, 2007].
This finding again shows that though developmentally and/or genetically interrelated, these two traits have different genetic architectures.
However, it is unclear how these different fibre traits are interrelated with each other and consequently how these interrelations influence wood density.
Generally, the correlated traits are interrelated, and an increase in one component may lead to a decrease or an increase in others.
Agronomic traits and quality traits are often interrelated.
Because these traits are highly interrelated, it is suggested that a major progress in crop breeding for salinity tolerance can be achieved only if these complementary traits are targeted at the same time.
Malting quality is a genetically complex phenotype representing a set of component traits, many of which are interrelated [ 9- 11].
These traits seem to be highly interrelated, as cytosolic K+ retention is essential for the optimal vacuolar H+ pump operations [ 4] required to fuel NHX Na+/H+ exchanger to enable Na+ sequestration.
Significant correlations indicate that traits referring to agronomic features and quality of button mushrooms might be interrelated and influence each other (Additional file 1: Tables S3 S5).
