Assuming these genetic associations to be absent would be more difficult to accept, since genetics most likely affects multiple traits of a set in a way that is not mediated by other traits in the set.
These mechanisms most likely underlie specific traits rather than diagnoses or complex behavioral clusters.
This paper demonstrates that SCC, and therefore SCS, of apparently uninfected and infected animals are most likely two different traits with different heritabilities.
Most likely, this special trait offers a defense against pathogen and/or pathogen attack (Freeman et al. 2006Boyd 2006Boyd
Finally, we need to test whether the few genes that show consistent changes across studies are those most likely involved in trait variation.
Since no orthologs were identified exclusively in the unicellular cyanobacteria, the filamentous phenotype is most likely a derived trait.
As genetic architecture underlying mortality is more complex than that of spore load, (as host mortality is most likely a composite trait, with possible contributions of both resistance and tolerance, [ 31]) this can potentially explain the difference in GH × GP interactions between our fitness measures.
The observed correlations between any two traits in addition to the correlations between these traits and genotypes at the given locus, are the key ingredients to inferring the most likely relationship between the traits.
These results provided statistical support for the hypothesis that trichromatic color vision in primates evolved in a context other than intraspecific communication with red traits, most likely foraging performance, but, once evolved, represented a pre-existing bias that promoted the evolution of red traits through sexual selection.
Our results point to a surprisingly simple genetic architecture underlying the decay of female sexual traits, which most likely facilitated the spread of reduced sexual traits in the asexual population.
