Sentence examples for may affect fitness from inspiring English sources

[33] If contrasting markings accelerate the speed of body heating, they may affect fitness costs through thermoregulation.

Because joining a multicelluar aggregate and differentiating into spores may be essential to survival and reproduction in the social amoeba D. discoideum, rapid and slow movement toward aggregates modulated by DIFs may affect fitness.

Natural selection acts on many characters simultaneously [29] and accordingly, our results dealing with natural selection by predation would suggest that two or more traits may affect fitness in an interactive way (i.e. correlational selection) [7], [29], [30].

The use of an ex vivo system, such as that used in this and other studies, does not reflect the sensitivity of the virus to antiretroviral drugs, chemokines or additional inhibitory agents that may affect fitness in vivo.

While it has been shown that during the breeding season starling song is involved in female mate choice and in male-male interactions [20], [21], [22], [23] and that song rates may affect fitness (reviewed by [23]), it has been suggested that non-breeding song may also affect mating decisions and pair formation, as well as social cohesion [24].

In addition, they also differ in vegetative and floral traits that may affect fitness [ 26, 27, 35].

In these cases, escape from specific immune memory may not affect fitness or, if immune pressure is weak, escape phenotypes may be slow to evolve.

Even if the two trajectories do differ in pleiotropic effects, the phenotypic differences we have documented here may not affect fitness under the conditions of the initial thermal stress experiment.

Our findings suggest that the ND5 deletion may adversely affect fitness and mitochondrial functioning while promoting aging in natural populations, and help to further establish this species as a useful model for explicit tests of hypotheses in aging biology and mitochondrial genetics.

We assume that fitness is not directly affected by the R locus, although change at this locus may of course affect fitness indirectly via S ^ D. In the next section we use an example to illustrate how the model functions.

This negative correlation may affect female fitness more than male fitness in H. virescens, because females are the sexual signalers, whereas males have been shown to be choosy [ 35, 48].