Such transcripts are plausible candidates for the determinants of morphological differences between the species.
Such differences in key developmental transcription factors and hormones are perhaps not unexpected as these may be major determinants of Agave morphological adaptations to xeric environments.
Based on the loading and biplot, it appeared that a few morphological characters are the major determinants of phenotypic diversity, among which grain length, weight and width, leaf length, panicle density and plant height play a pivotal role.
All these aspects become relevant given our divergence time estimates and warrant further investigation on the ecological determinants of eco-morphological diversification within Phelsuma in the Seychelles.
According to the results, the germplasm can be divided into two groups, with morphological and ecophysiological characteristics being key determinants of the population structure.
The analyzed germplasm can be divided into two groups, with morphological and ecophysiological characteristics being key determinants of the population structure.
The finding that many major QTL mapped on LG21 suggests that this linkage group might be a hotspot for genetic determinants of ecologically important morphological traits in three-spined sticklebacks.
Sequence changes either in the coding domain or in the regulatory regions are major determinants of plant and animal morphological evolution (Doebley and Lukens 1998).
With competition for space and cellular migration being the dominant determinants of tumor progression and morphological evolution [ 9, 11], we report a biphasic behavior for the overall effect of directed migration on tumor growth and morphology.
Therefore, the morphological and agronomic characteristics, which determined the ecophysiological clusters, were key determinants of the population structure of the H. chilense germplasm.
