A stem age for Hydatellaceae of ~127 Ma (see Results and Additional file 3) suggests that stem lineage Hydatellaceae were colonizing aquatic environments in the Lower Cretaceous, although when Hydatellaceae acquired the unique suite of traits suited for ephemeral aquatic habitats is unclear.
One possible explanation is that the undisturbed communities actually constitute a harsher environment for species due to their high level of competition, and that there may be a suite of traits that make species suited to this environment which are phylogenetically conserved.
The unusual winters are forcing hybridizers to add climate resiliency to the suite of traits.
The present findings corroborate previous evidence that melanic coloration covaries with a suite of traits.
Migration is a fascinating behavior to study as it requires animals to integrate a complex suite of traits to successfully move across the globe.
But that left-field portrait, paradoxically, might be exactly the suite of traits that could draw in at least some conservatives to support her in the primary.
Culture means many things in this context, but at heart it is a suite of traits we inherit and also choose to disavow or to stress.
This suite of traits reflects that seen in "proto-Kranz" species, and, as such, a key step toward engineering C4 rice has been achieved.
We conclude that wild species encompass considerable variation in water use strategies, with several accessions being quantitatively distinct from C. arietinum accessions, providing a suite of traits of potential relevance for agricultural improvement.
Poison frogs are a model system for the study of complex phenotypes, as the aposematic syndrome, a suite of traits including anti-predator defenses and dazzling coloration, has evolved at least three times within this 310-species clade.
There was a distinct suite of traits absent from intensely used habitats and those same traits were associated with the two most important provisioning services in the region (firewood and construction).
