Sentence examples for using a common garden from inspiring English sources

We test for evidence of local adaptation or facultative spawning using a common garden experiment (CGE) design.

However, when young fish were collected from two sites which produce particularly small and large fish and reared using a common garden design, growth rates between fish from the two sites were indistinguishable.

We compared pairs of closely related populations that experience either high or low levels of predation in the wild, and manipulated the perceived predation risk in the rearing environment using a common garden split-brood design.

In the present study, using a common garden setup we investigated the impact of leaf size, an important characteristic of leaf architecture, on xylem hydraulics and carbon economy of five commonly found sympatric compound-leaved tree species from a typical temperate forest of NE China.

We performed an on-farm experiment using a "common garden" design to control environmental variation, in order to compare the growth and survival, as well as the number of intermuscular bones of nude carp to two other common scale cover phenotypes of the same species, the mirror and scaly carps.

Using a common garden design, we examined four populations of a single species of semi-aquatic snake, Nerodia rhombifer, to determine whether ontogenetic shifts in habitat use (and/or body size) and latitudinal differences in ambient temperature have resulted in evolutionary changes in thermal tolerance.

In this study, we use a common garden experiment to determine if morphological and life historical differences between inland and coastal populations of swamp sparrows remain when individuals are reared under identical environmental conditions.

Second, we used a common garden experiment to test whether the observed cline in melanism was genetically based, or reflected either plastic response to environmental heterogeneity or ontogenetic plasticity with geographical differences in age structure.

Furthermore, because we used a "common garden" experimental design in which flies from both populations were raised under identical conditions for multiple generations prior to RNA extraction, we can assume that the differences in expression have an underlying genetic basis and are not the result of phenotypic plasticity.

The genetic component of the traits studied here remain unknown as previous studies investigating genetic differences among populations of nine-spined stickleback using a common-garden approach have not yet reported heritablities for these traits [ 13, 45].

To test whether gradual thermal evolution may mitigate these effects at high latitudes, we applied a space-for-time substitution approach using a common-garden warming experiment with replicated populations from low and high latitudes spanning > 1500 km in Europe.