In principle, these tools should lead to mechanistic understanding of evolutionary trajectories, but selections for faster growth or novel functions typically produce adaptive mutations in multiple functional modules (Kvitek and Sherlock, 2013), whose relationship to each other is hard to explain.
Our findings provide a highly relevant case study of a duplication leading to multiple functional loci encoding a gene with important adaptive traits in onion.
The resulting framework, 'complex adaptive landscapes' (CAL), explicitly captures the reciprocal feedbacks and non-linear nature of interactions between components within and between system levels, and the consequent possibility of multiple functional states (alternate systems functioning).
Developing an understanding of diversification along multiple functional morphological dimensions in Geophagini will provide us with a clearer picture of the ecological and evolutionary processes involved in the adaptive radiation of one of the most diverse groups of Neotropical fishes.
Limited evidence for microbiome associations with genetic ancestry or kinship across multiple functional and taxonomic levels.
Agati, G. & Tattini, M. Multiple functional roles of flavonoids in photoprotection.
Deng, H. X. et al. Multiple functional groups of varying ratios in metal-organic frameworks.
In the real world, multiple functional units are involved in a single transaction.
It's a highly functional adaptive strategy.
Thus, the degree of inflammasome induction appears to correlate with generation of functional adaptive immune responses.
For the large majority of these regions, however, no association to a locally adaptive phenotype has been established and the precise location of functional adaptive variants remains elusive.
