Sentence examples for traits of functional from inspiring English sources
Eighteen morphological traits of functional importance for interactions between workers and the environment were measured to characterize the size and shape of the workers.
The article by Moyle and Muir (2010) provides a fascinating overview of research on tomato and its wild relatives, in particular highlighting how such studies can provide insight into the mechanisms underlying traits of functional importance (e.g. adaptation to water stress).
A chi-square test statistic for each SNP marker showing linkage within a QTL interval was obtained using 2 × 3 contingency tables to demonstrate the distribution of parental strain alleles within the F2 population using the quantitative traits of functional motor deficits, CNS vascular permeability, and astrocyte activation.
Removal of Rfx6 perturbs key molecular traits of functional β cells with the reduction in expression of glucokinase, the ATP-sensitive K+ channel Abcc8/SUR1, as well as eight voltage-gated Ca2+ channel genes, some of which are direct targets of Rfx6.
Fleshy leaves may thus be a trait of functional importance in dry habitats, and it has been gained at least twice in clades 1 and 3. Corolla tube length and galea structure show striking interspecific variations in Pedicularis.
Phenotypes were daughter trait deviations (DTD) from two groups of traits: functional traits, including angularity, mammary conformation, stature, fertility (calving interval) and somatic cell count (SCC), and production traits, including milk yield, protein yield, protein % and fat %.
In contrast to measuring specific traits, other measures of functional diversity use multivariate techniques to evaluate trait differences/similarities among species without reliance on a small number of traits selected a priori.
In order to develop a mechanistic understanding of how biodiversity affects ecosystem function we must examine how the functional characteristics (i.e. traits) of organisms and functional diversity within a community relate to ecosystem function [7], [8].
Yet important aspects of wood functional traits—hypothesized to covary along a 'wood economics spectrum' (WES; Chave et al. 2009)—still remain poorly understood when compared with other notable suites of functional traits such as leaf traits, reproductive traits or tree size metrics (reviewed by Westoby et al. 2002).
When coevolving traits do not affect other functions, coevolution and evolution of functional traits may be orthogonal and proceed independently.
We quantified community and functional responses of a temperate forest lizard community to fire and rotational logging using metrics including species-specific abundance, community abundance, species richness and evenness, as well as trait-based measures of functional diversity.
