Sentence examples for isolated traits from inspiring English sources

For the last 100 years, breeders have isolated traits in rice, such as disease resistance and high yields, and developed them through cross breeding.

Further, natural selection acts upon the whole organism rather than on isolated traits, and thus, adaptive evolution may be constrained by the interaction between traits that are functionally or physiologically integrated.

By removal of isolated traits, i.e. traits which share no associated locus with another trait (n = 27), and cutting out loci which are associated with only one trait (n = 577), we retrieved the SLN.

Notably, comparisons with non-mammalian groups lacking laminar cytoarchitecture, as is the case in birds, can be used to isolate traits that depend upon laminar cytoarchitecture from those that do not.

Reproductive character displacement - 'the pattern of greater divergence of a (prezygotic) isolating trait in areas of sympatry between closely related taxa than in areas of allopatry' [ 1, 2] is a common and taxonomically widespread pattern which is of great interest when studying reproductive isolation [ 3].

In particular, scientists have found that family members of a child with autism often exhibit isolated autistic traits.

He eventually isolated sixteen traits exhibited by patients he called "primary" psychopaths; these included being charming and intelligent, unreliable, dishonest, irresponsible, self-centered, emotionally shallow, and lacking in empathy and insight.

Although host fruit choice and diapause timing are the key isolating traits, other traits may play a role in reproductive isolation in Rhagoletis, and could be analyzed given genomic resources for Rhagoletis.

However, it is not a single fertilization trait, but rather a group of fertilization traits that include conspecific sperm precedence [11] and the ability of males to induce females to lay eggs [14] – collectively called gametic isolating traits (see 2, pp 232 246 for a review).

Genetic testing of the MRSA isolates revealed traits common among exceptionally virulent community-acquired strains circulating in the United States.

Functional genomics has yielded an abundance of data on numerous plant and animal species while also providing novel techniques for isolating valuable traits or genes from these organisms.