Results suggest that beliefs about the stability of traits may serve an important role in thinking about and functioning within the academic and sociomoral domains.
Over longer periods, long in relation to the animals' life span, stability of traits may be dependent of life stage of the animal but also external factors like stability of the surrounding environment.
In the future, we will analyze other lettuce populations, determine the existence of additional QTLs involved in the rate of deterioration, and study the stability of this trait when plants from different environments are processed for salad.
The robust population stability of this trait is called canalization.
Another source of the evolutionary stability of a trait is frequency-dependent selection, particularly the steep dependence of fitness on the frequency of a particular allele.
Another source of the evolutionary stability of a trait is frequency-dependent selection, particularly the steep dependence of fitness on the frequency of an allele.
Compared to populations in salt, populations in uranium showed a reduction of the stability of their trait structure and a higher capacity to respond by acclimation.
This procedure gave rise to 60 experimental conditions, each consisting of 250 trees and simulated datasets, and varying in tree size and index of stability of simulated trait values.
The striking differences in the range of cotyledon opening in the RI lines (Additional File 5, Additional File 6, Additional File 7, Additional File 8, Additional File 9, Additional File 10, Additional File 11, Additional File 12) suggested that genes for the stability of the trait might be segregating in these mapping populations.
However, based on the stability of the trait that we have observed so far, any reduction of oleic acid content due to the environment is likely to be minor because very little FAD2 enzyme activity remains in developing seeds in the mutant FAD2-1A and FAD2-1B lines.
