Sentence examples for The ongoing selection from inspiring English sources

The ongoing selection pressure is at the root of the extensive variation underlying many of the genes in the immune defense pathways (Christophides et al. 2002; Nielsen et al. 2005; Sackton et al. 2007; Obbard et al. 2009).

Under some conditions, the ongoing selection of prey to evade attack and on predators to capture their food can result in an ongoing escalation of defense and counterdefense that has been likened to an arms race between nations.

The results presented in this paper could contribute to further explorations of the ongoing selection in humans.

The continuing use of fluoroquinolones, possibly at sub-optimal doses within the community, may continue to aid the ongoing selection of these organisms.

In summary, the distribution of opa length variants of Notch likely represents a snapshot summary of the ongoing selection acting on these unstable but functionally necessary opa repeats and the precise opa repeat number.

It may be that because BCG vaccination has been introduced much earlier in Hong Kong than in Vietnam, the ongoing selection of particular strains of the Beijing lineage [ 11] may be more advanced in the former than in the latter area and the mentioned loci may have a different level of discriminative power among the circulating strains in both areas.

These authors suggested that the particular incidence of positive selection in cancer-related genes is motivated by the strong ongoing selection generated by evolutionary conflict (antagonistic coevolution).

This suggests that the proportion of homozygotes increased with the age of the mussels indicating ongoing selection.

Moreover, growing evidence of viral escape within CD8+ T cell epitopes during acute and chronic SIV or HIV-1 infection demonstrate that CD8+ T cells can exert strong immune selection pressure on the virus [8] [10], [11], [12], [13], although the evidence for ongoing selection pressure in chronic infection is less clear-cut [14].

On the other hand, immigrants would in general be maladapted to the local environment and resultant gene flow with the reintroduced population as it grows might constrain the effects of ongoing selection (Fig. 2E; Gomulkiewicz and Holt 1995; Kinnison and Hairston 2007).

The iHS approach appears to be the most powerful for detecting ongoing selection processes for which the target allele has a moderate to high frequency (0.4 < P < 0.8) within a population [ 45].