The phrase "a particular preference in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's specific likes or inclinations regarding a certain topic or choice.
Example: "She has a particular preference in music genres, favoring jazz over pop."
Alternatives: "a specific preference for" or "a distinct liking for".
Two different kinds of partner preferences could lead to a replacement of one taxon by another: an asymmetric conspecific mate preference or a particular preference for non-conspecifics (reviewed in [ 43]).
Where differences existed, these related to the relative strength of preference (that is, one group valuing a particular preference more than another) or variations in preferences for other attribute or levels (for example, for diarrhoea, pharmacist was significant for females but not for males).
HD is caused by a CAG triplet expansion in the gene coding the protein huntingtin, which is toxic for these neuronal subpopulations, although the mechanism(s) responsible for this particular preference in neuronal degeneration in HD remains to be fully identified.
Again the paper was only interested in the benefit packages the potential beneficiaries would want included in the CBHI scheme when in operation so the analysis did not consider the wealth quartiles and their particular preferences in the three types of communities used in this study.
Using substrate library screening we demonstrated key features of this enzyme, disclosing particular preferences in shape and size of potential substrates and inhibitors, which can facilitate rational design of small molecular-mass selective markers that can be used in studies of LTA4H.
But experimental evidence [7, 42] suggests very clearly that no particular point on this plane should have any distinguished part to play in the general design of the orientation map (e.g. be an organizational center for the development of the map, or have a systematic tendency to exhibit a particular orientation preference in the end).
This proposition could be tested by experimentally selecting for a microbiome that generates a particular food preference in animals, as above.
For finding conserved positions in alignments among organisms sharing a particular niche preference, we generated in-house R scripts for counting shared positions between them which differ in the rest and created a null distribution counting the same for all possible random groups of genomes.
Overall, the absence of a detectable preference for any lineage in the allopatric voles does not support a key role for partner preferences in the replacement of the Western by the Central lineage since this would probably require a particular partner preference also in pure populations.
