Sentence examples for weakened trait from inspiring English sources

The greater variation of floral traits in later flowers compared to early flowers of A. gymnandrum may be in part due to weakened trait correlations of family means (i.e. weakened genetic correlation).

Falling public confidence in national government affects not just political stability, but also weakens civic traits such as paying tax and participation in vaccination programmes.

The long-term goal of meditators undergoing such training is to weaken egocentric traits so that altruistic behaviors might arise more frequently and spontaneously.

Positive family-mean correlations between floral traits weakened gradually from basal to distal flowers, i.e. the strength of correlations were position-specific.

We also found changes in the strength of selection on morphological traits, which weakened considerably after the disturbance; habitat loss therefore changed the phenotypes favored by natural selection.

Hybridization may also play a role in the origin of novel traits, weakening biological controls targeted to the introduced species or altering ecosystem function (Fritz 1999; Gaskin and Kazmer 2009).

Mr. Hagemeijer said the strength of the virus among wild birds possibly weakened as the southward migration season progressed, a trait he said was common in less dangerous bird flu viruses.

The negative effect of life stress on mental health was weakened for those individuals with higher levels of trait mindfulness.

Other even less specific observable traits include fractures, due to a weakened bone structure, and transverse fractures and dislocations of the osteochondral junction of the ribs (see Brickley and Ives, 2006).

Recent genetic studies have shown that genetic loci with significant effects in whole-genome quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses were lost or weakened in congenic strains.

We found that relative to Matsumae, the salt tolerance trait in RZ5 was significantly compromised due to weakened capacity in Na+ exclusion under the salt stress condition, and hence, escalated the injuries of Na+ and Cl- in shoots.