The slopes of the log-log curves were 0.7, 0.66, and 0.58 for replisome movement in the long axis in the three experiments, less than a slope of 1 expected for free diffusion (Fiebig et al., 2006).
If all females would have displayed normal levels of sexual activity, female mating synchrony would have been higher, resulting in lower monopolization potential for high-rankers (i.e. the slope of the expected regression curve of mating success on rank would have been shallower).
Also, the slope of the regression line of expected amino acid values is steeper than that of the real data.
Based on the relationship of expected EDP = 17.18 × egg mass 0.119 for the Charadriiformes [ 74] we calculated the residuals of EDP from this slope (See Table 1).
In this case, a slope of −2 is expected for the approximately linear portion of the curve.
The calibration curve is linear with a slope of one as expected for a uniform distribution of monodispersed QDs, and the intercept is dependent on the quantum yield and hence varies from batch to batch of QDs.
The linear relationship between distances with a steep slope is expected under directional selection, and the lack of relationship is expected under stabilising selection.
The number of observed methylation markers has in general the same slope as expected.
All length measurements that are regressed against body mass have an expected slope of 0.33 and measurements of areas have an expected slope of 0.67.
By determining the insert sizes of a subset of BAC clones from these three species, we also found a significant correlation between the intermarker distance in alligator and turtle and in chicken, with slopes as expected on the basis of the ratio of the genome sizes.
