Sentence examples similar to mainly trait from inspiring English sources

Currently, beef cattle genetic evaluations include mainly growth traits, but carcass traits are also economically important [ 2].

Therefore, the selection pressure on the two traits was more balanced for W1 3 than for W1 1, for which the selection pressure was mainly on trait 1.

Consequently, between-period differences in functional β-diversity were highest in secondary forest compared to fragments and continuous forest, determined mainly by trait gains.

The third axis mainly represented trait variation due to species identity (40%%) and fertilization (10%%).

In Brazil, beef cattle breeding programs have put emphasis mainly on traits such as growth and weight gain and little attention has been paid to reproductive traits, in spite of the considerable influence that these traits have on the productivity and reproductive efficiency of herds [ 2– 4].

Not only does Mr. Gonzales fail to explain how Stone might have managed the unprecedented feat of cross-species breeding in the middle of the jungle without any real laboratory or medical facilities, but he also sidesteps the question of why Lucy's looks are so utterly human and why her bonobo genes are evident mainly in traits like her unusual physical strength and highly acute hearing.

Some studies have found that subjects give higher accuracy ratings for three reasons: (a) the subject believes that the analysis applies only to him or her, and thus applies their own meaning to the statements [17], (b) the subject believes in the authority of the evaluator, and (c) the analysis lists mainly positive traits [2].

The UNL Swine Research Unit provided maternal and terminal crossbred pigs (B1 to B4; n = 386) based on Large White, Landrace, and Duroc from a commercial source as well as the Nebraska Index Line (Additional file 1: Table S1), which has been selected since 1981 mainly for traits related to increased litter size.

In the past, breeders have worked mainly on production traits, milk content traits and type traits.

For PC 1 (30% of variation) traits with positive loadings were mainly body length traits (AFL, PFL, DFL, HL), whereas head measures particularly jaw width traits (LJW, UJW, UJL, ED, SEL) had negative loadings.

In the last decades, there has been an accumulating number of QTL mapping studies in the chicken, using mostly F2 designs [reviewed by [ 34, 35]] and applied mainly on production traits like growth related traits.