to vary in correlation with another related variant
Examples of 'covary' in a sentence
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How these factors may covary with energetics and somatic condition merits further investigation.
Dorsa Amir, Matthew R Jordan, Richard G Bribiescas 2016, 'A Longitudinal Assessment of Associations between Adolescent Environment, AdversityPerception, and Economic Status on Fertility and Age of Menarche.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4889152?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Estimates of pairwise distances with overlapping paths covary because of shared mutation events.
Manuel Gil 2014, 'Fast and accurate estimation of the covariance between pairwise maximum likelihooddistances', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/583.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Many plant traits covary in a non-random manner reflecting interdependencies associated with "ecological strategy" dimensions.
S. Patiño, N. M. Fyllas, T. R. Baker, R. Paiva, C. A. Quesada, A. J. B. Santos, M.Schwarz, H. ter Steege, O. L. Phillips, J. Lloyd 2012, 'Coordination of physiological and structural traits in Amazon forest trees', Biogeoscienceshttp://www.biogeosciences.net/9/775/2012/bg-9-775-2012.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, only female body size was found to covary significantly with an environmentalgradient (precipitation).
Brian C Bock, Angela M Ortega, Ana María Zapata, Vivian P Páez 2009, 'Microgeographic body size variation in a high elevation Andean anole (Anolis mariarum;Squamata, Polychrotidae)', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442009000400028. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Morphological integration describes the degree to which sets of organismal traits covary with one another.
Dean C. Adams, Ryan N. Felice 2014, 'Assessing Trait Covariation and Morphological Integration on Phylogenies Using EvolutionaryCovariance Matrices', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0094335. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
As different traits of an organism covary, genetic correlations are expected to affect evolutionary trajectories.
Celine Teplitsky, Maja Tarka, Anders P Møller, Shinichi Nakagawa, Javier Balbontín,Terry A Burke, Claire Doutrelant, Arnaud Gregoire, Bengt Hansson, Dennis Hasselquist,Lars Gustafsson, Florentino de Lope, Alfonso Marzal, James A Mills, Nathaniel T Wheelwright,John W Yarrall, Anne Charmantier 2014, 'Assessing multivariate constraints to evolution across ten long-term avian studies.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3946496?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To understand how the former covary with the latter requires a mixed-methods bioethnographic approach.
Alexandra C. Tuggle, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Douglas E. Crews 2018, 'Stress, migration, and allostatic load: a model based on Mexican migrants in Columbus,Ohio', Journal of Physiological Anthropologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40101-018-0188-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this way, traits that estimate water balance are expected to covary with climate and constrain a species' geographic distribution.
Braz Titon, Fernando Ribeiro Gomes 2015, 'Relation between Water Balance and Climatic Variables Associated with the GeographicalDistribution of Anurans', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0140761. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Although forest outcomes covary with cultural ancestry, this effect disappears after controlling for geographic proximity and ecology.
Quentin D Atkinson, Ties Coomber, Sam Passmore, Simon J Greenhill, Geoff Kushnick 2016, 'Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4883741?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Overall the morphological characteristics tended to be symmetrical, and volumes also tended to covary between hemispheres.
Heather M Wild, Rolf A Heckemann, Colin Studholme, Alexander Hammers 2017, 'Gyri of the human parietal lobe: Volumes, spatial extents, automatic labelling, andprobabilistic atlases.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5573296?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)