Sentence examples for trait responsible for from inspiring English sources
The study, published last week in the journal Science, is a rare look at the complete process of what evolutionary biologists call character displacement, the change in a trait responsible for exploiting food or other resources in response to competition for the resources.
The main disadvantage of evolutionary engineering resides in the fact that the genetic trait responsible for the improvement has to be identified posteriorly and thus cannot be directly transferred to another strain.
While most students (78%) correctly identified corolla length as the trait responsible for phenotypic variation in wild tobacco populations, only 41% of the students demonstrated a clear understanding of the nature of phenotypic variation among Avidians (the ability to metabolize different resources).
However, traits responsible for such adaptation may differ with environments.
The identification of morpho-physiological traits responsible for a better behavior in a target N environment is useful for cultivar selection, and become crucial for maize breeding improvement.
Special attention was paid to the yield components and the physiological traits responsible for the magnitude of differences in grain yield between hybrid rice and inbred cultivars at different yield levels.
Phenotypic plasticity is considered as one of the key traits responsible for the establishment of populations of the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus, an important vector of viral and parasitic pathogens.
Influenza viruses from the animal reservoir can harbor genetic traits responsible for increased host range and virulence in mammals.
Thus, we theorized that host genetic loci that impact colonization by O157 H7 in the BXD panel may reflect human traits responsible for STEC disease.
First, populations exposed to the same conditions must be phylogenetically independent so that shared traits responsible for reproductive isolation evolved separately.
Recent work (Nayak et al. 2005; Baldi et al. 2009) has implicated self-sperm specification and activation as two traits responsible for the origin of hermaphroditism in C. elegans.
