The seven phenotypes under consideration are in the top 22 most competitive phenotypes in the 100 LH samples, as listed in Additional file 1: Table S7.
Furthermore, based on their R ^ values, these seven phenotypes are in the top eight most competitive phenotypes in the 19,000 DE sample set.
The list of most competitive phenotypes suggests places where the structure of the model may be incorrect or the experimental observations may be suspect.
Furthermore, three phenotypes (# 67, 74, and 117 listed in Additional file 1: Table S7), all among the four most competitive phenotypes (Additional file 1: Table S10) as identified by 100 LH samples, were consistently missed by the top performing parameter vectors in all five DE runs.
Gray region: fitness set composed of the fitness of all possible phenotypes in each environment; Black line: Pareto front of most competitive phenotypes; Dashed line: fitness of mixed populations of specialists; Circles: fitness of phenotypes corresponding the circles in the left plot.
