Sentence examples for traits to select from inspiring English sources

It is hard to see how hunter-gatherers could have foreseen the payoff from domesticating wolves, or would have known what traits to select for.

We propose to use functional traits to select cover plants suited to sustain ecological services in the banana agrosystems of the French West Indies.

Issues concerning transfer of drug resistance traits to select agents are brought to the Intragovernmental Select Agents and Toxins Technical Advisory Committee for assessment.

Among these, we searched for gene expression traits that were associated with the markers linked to physiological traits to select candidate genes for the QTLs (Table 4).

Residual feed intake (RFI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) can be incorporated into a breeding program as traits to select for feed efficiency.

Increasing milk yield is no longer ranked among the most important traits to select for, but it is quite possible that survey respondents are indicating a desire for healthy, long-lived cows that are also highly productive.

Prolificacy is considered as a difficult trait to select for because of its low polygenic inheritance.

The high heritabilities of the direct effect for SB were unexpected and suggest that this is the best trait to select on.

The statistic F y k + 1 | y 1, y 2,..., y k may be used to test whether a trait is redundant in the presence of other traits and to select traits for multitrait analysis.

Researchers and breeders have increasingly been adopting molecular markers to identify genomic regions influencing traits and to select for desirable phenotypes based on identified marker-trait associations [ 4- 6].

The role of Wolbachia would be to reduce gene flow between populations, allowing genetic divergence for locally adaptive traits, and to select for premating isolation.