Sentence examples for morphological traits but from inspiring English sources

Highly significant differences occurred at P< 0.01 in 32 morphological traits, but not fruit width (FW) or fruit length/width (FLW) (Table  1).

Life history traits in the Rum red deer population have lower heritabilities than morphological traits, but this is largely due to an increase in environmental variance for these traits (Kruuk et al. 2000).

This is considering that the local South American Pacific Alexandrium species were classified as A. catenella (Muñoz 1985), mainly based on morphological traits, but without a further assessment of sequence variation.

Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping studies of Pacific three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) have uncovered several genomic regions controlling variability in different morphological traits, but QTL studies of Atlantic sticklebacks are lacking.

Ideally, workers from more colonies per species should have been included in our analysis to better cover the total intraspecific variation of morphological traits, but this was not possible because most species are only rarely collected so that larger samples are not available.

Trends included both increases and decreases in the 15 morphological traits measured, but slightly more trends were towards larger size.

Behaviours are usually considered to be more flexible than morphological traits [2], [ but see e.g. 10].

Within the hybrid transect and inside the core hybrid zone, where individuals experience the same environment, plumage traits, but not morphological traits, were correlated with Q-scores (Table  1).

This technique has been used to quantify genetic variation in a variety of behavioural and morphological traits [ 30] but has never before been used to explore female mate choice or egg production.

None of these involves morphological traits enhancing visual signals, but easy bleeding is associated with the absence of defensive body movements and with toxins occurring in the host plant.

Conversely (and complementarily), morphological traits provide noisy phylogenetic signals but direct, manageable information about ancient populations.