The phrase "a function of extant" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It could be used in discussions about existing conditions or factors, but it needs additional context to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The success of the project is a function of extant resources and team collaboration."
Alternatives: "a result of existing" or "a product of current".
The RS values by definition average the substitution rate across an entire branch, the length/time of that branch being a function of the number of extant Geraniaceae taxa and our sampling of those taxa.
2.B C shows FFLness as a function of response specificity for autoregulated and non-autoregulated TFs, both in the extant network and in a null model (considering randomized networks with the same connectivity sequence, Materials and methods).
The MDL penalty increases as a function of the number of parameters in our model, which is equal to the number of means and variances we estimate for each extant species, and the size of the transition matrices in both extant and ancestral species (see Roy et al., 2013 for more details).
In addition, the structures and functions of extant chemosynthetic biological communities, which have been characterized in many previous investigations, have not yet been integrated into development of these theoretical relationships.
Instead, the long-term evolutionary adaptation of living organisms is well known to mainly rely on tinkering with the long evolved functions of extant genes and their regulations.
Based on the functions of extant versions of the domain, like the TGS superfamily, the IF3-N domain, and early structural derivatives such as the S4 superfamily, it is quite possible that the earliest versions of the fold played a generic role in a primitive pre-LUCA translation system.
The inputs of the reconstruction algorithm are the sequences, domain compositions, and catalytic functions of enzyme proteins in a number of extant species, and the phylogenetic tree of these species.
This may permit us to infer the functional repertoire of the LSF/GRH ancestor, and to compare this ancestral condition with the function of LSF and GRH in a phylogenetic progression of extant taxa.
Given a collection of extant species and their phylogenetic tree, each species (extant or ancestral) in possesses a DPR network.
