Sentence examples for traits of selection from inspiring English sources

Because of the uncertainties of the measurements of the maximum growth rate in batch of the two clones (for AB1100h and for AB2800b), the possibility remains that other traits of selection might have been involved.

A change in the selection gradient intensity of a trait when causal selective pressure intensities are altered indicates a relationship between the agent (selective pressure) and target (trait) of selection.

The target trait of selection is flowering time.

(2013) found that for many phenotypic traits, signatures of selection were evident only when loci were considered at the level of functional sets (i.e. across all loci associated with a particular trait).

An important use of the G-matrix is to predict the response of a set of traits to selection (Lande 1979).

This has been made possible by combining stringent phenotypic selection with a major focus on agronomic and quality traits for selection of the plants and MAS for gene(s) of interest (Gopalakrishnan et al. 2008).

The small responses of ornamental traits to selection on male attractiveness suggest that we may have selected in a direction that contains little multivariate genetic variation.

Responses of multiple traits to selection from a single environmental factor can be constrained by negative genetic correlations among those traits (Falconer and Mackay1996).

At what rate will evolution proceed given heritability of traits and strength of selection?

The results in our study also give an insight to correlations between haplotype, autozygosity, target traits, and objectives of selection in dairy breeding.

It has to be noted that a decrease of both traits upon relaxation of selection requires the additional assumption of a cost, either a quantitative cost or a trade-off with some other trait (Hufbauer 2002).