Sentence examples for traits of birds from inspiring English sources

For acoustic traits, microclimate and vegetation structure can be important selective pressures on the transmission of acoustic traits of birds living in different habitats [ 26, 27].

Finally, there have been continuous efforts of quantifying the life history traits of birds ever since the times of Darwin, which show tremendous variations between species, and frequently between sexes of the same species.

The identification of genetic variants controlling morphology in the chicken population has helped us understand the genetics and genomics of both simple and complex traits of birds (Wright et al. 2009; Dorshorst et al. 2011; Mou et al. 2011; Imsland et al. 2012; Johnsson et al. 2012; Ng et al. 2012; Shinomiya et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2012a).

We consider these indicators to scan various functional traits of bird communities.

Both topics aim on identifying the importance of environmental factors for the life history traits of bird migrants.

Both books together are remarkable in their celebration of birds, not least because neither of them gives much consideration to the one trait of birds that, more than any other, captivates human beings in the first place.

Although photoreception is a crucial and ubiquitous trait of birds, our understanding of the co-evolution of behaviors and patterns of genetic variation underlying avian photoreception remains poor.

As is well known, the platypus bears traits distinctive of birds and mammals alike.

Such a bias could be caused by a structural-functional constraint preventing reversal of the complex trait of bird-pollination syndrome to a bee-pollination syndrome (an evolutionary 'ratchet mechanism' that facilitates transitions in one direction, [ 18, 19]).

But more distant groups have proportionately fewer traits of modern birds.

Some stem-members share most but not all of the traits of modern birds: Ichthyornis retains teeth, but otherwise has a relatively modern anatomy.