Fig. 1: Conceptual figure of hypotheses and example.
From: Phenotypic plasticity of fungal traits in response to moisture and temperature
A Conceptual figure demonstrating traits as a function of both environmental (temperature and moisture) and genetic properties. Temperature and moisture are independent variables and the trait values are the dependent variables. Maximum trait values are in pink and minimum values are blue. We predicted that across fungal isolates, point values (i.e., enzyme activity or biomass at a given temperature and moisture level) should vary with temperature and moisture (Hypothesis 1). In addition, plasticity traits (i.e., enzyme responses or biomass across the temperature-moisture gradient) should vary between fungal isolates (Hypothesis 2). We also predicted that more similar fungi should exhibit more similar point values at specific points along with the moisture and temperature gradient (Hypothesis 3). B Examples of three response surfaces for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG). The numbers on the plot (panel B) represent the values of the contour lines (values are logged). In this example, the point values from the three different isolates are similar in the center of the response surface. However, moving to the edges of the temperature gradient, NAG activity for Coprinellus aff xanthotrhis (phylum Basidiomycota) diverges from Trichoderma koningii (phylum Ascomycota) and Sarocladium implicatum (phylum Ascomycota), the more phylogenetically similar species. The phylogeny for all of the fungi used in this experiment is in Figure S1.
