The phrase "a cause of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing factors that influence choices or decisions, particularly in fields like biology, psychology, or decision-making processes.
Example: "In evolutionary biology, environmental changes can be a cause of selection, leading to adaptations in species over time."
Alternatives: "a factor influencing selection" or "a determinant of selection".
This could be a potential cause of selection bias.
The latter observation is critical; as it provides a putative functional link between the cause of selection and the evolutionary response exhibited in morphological change.
Such experiments demonstrate that host parasite coevolution is an important evolutionary force and a cause of strong and divergent natural selection.
A strong iHS signature near the end of chromosome 6 was also detected, as previously observed in other populations8,9,10,13,23, for which the cause of selection is unknown.
To understand selection as a cause of evolutionary change, one must recognize the slight individual variation, "see" the variation being selected, and then see it being naturally accumulated in successive generations.
Historically, religious scientists of the late nineteenth century managed to view natural selection as a cause of design in living things much as they viewed gravitation as the cause of the planets staying in their orbits (Numbers 1998).
The importance of natural selection as a cause of evolution was accepted into other branches of biology.
However, it is difficult as yet to draw strong general conclusions about the relative role of positive vs. stabilizing selection as a cause of DMIs, although this work highlights the relative role that different mechanisms might play at different population sizes and gives a quantitative theory that experimentalists can use to look for direct signatures of RI arising due to stabilizing selection.
The pattern of selective pressure changes in different linages agreed rather well with the substitution rate trends among neobatrachians (Natatanurans ≥ Afrobatrachians > Microhylidae ≈ non-ranoid neobatrachians), suggesting that relaxed purifying selection was a cause of substitution rate acceleration in neobatrachian mt genomes.
