Sentence examples for reproductive characters from inspiring English sources

However, another possibility is that this population itself has a history of extensive vegetative reproduction with relaxed selection on floral reproductive characters since a partial alteration of the environment has been observed on the site (pers. obs).

Homoeostrichus has been very easily confused with Exallosorus and Zonaria, based on the vegetative and reproductive characters used for separating among them summarized in Table 2.

Four and a half years after acclimatization, plants were phenotypically evaluated by morphological and biometric analysis of vegetative and reproductive characters and compared with control plants derived from seeds.

This response, termed canalization, does not spontaneously occur following growth in the absence of NaCl, but is triggered by the level of perturbation in parental expression of reproductive characters.

That is, some substances may have an ostensibly beneficial effect, when only longevity or mortality-rates are monitored, an effect that can be an artifact of functional impairment of reproductive characters, characters that are often not observed in drug studies that consider only survival rates or longevity.

A number of studies have documented coevolution between male and female reproductive characters.

For traits associated with resource acquisition or metabolism, this phenomenon is called ecological character displacement, to distinguish it from reproductive character displacement, which describes shifts in traits associated with reproduction.

The difficulty concerns the wildly unpredictable or unforeseeable nature of an act's total consequences across time, particularly when the identity-affecting dimensions of an act, which need not have an explicitly reproductive character, since many ostensibly innocuous acts will have decisive implications for how, and when, couples meet and then mate, are taken into account".

Finally, to evaluate the hypothesis of reproductive character displacement, it will be necessary to reconstruct the history of the two species in their different contact zones.

Since that work, evidence has been obtained suggesting that mate preference across the European mouse hybrid zone is a case of reproductive character displacement [9].

M. neotredecim is indistinguishable from 17-year M. septendecim genetically and morphologically, and it shows a striking pattern of reproductive character displacement in calling song pitch with the closely related species M. tredecim [14], [16].