Sentence examples for a role in diversification from inspiring English sources
The presence of closely related paralogous gene clusters (supplementary fig. S3, Supplementary Material online) in O. maius and E. dermatitidis suggest that gene cluster duplication has also played a role in diversification of GC gene clusters.
In particular it seems that genes encoding regulatory factors, e.g. transcription factors, are preferentially retained after duplication events and the divergence of these regulatory factors plays a role in diversification in flowering plants [ 14].
We conducted character optimization analyses to reconstruct the evolution of two traits that have been hypothesized to have played a role in diversification of mesembs: leaf shape and tracheid type (Klak et al., 2004).
While vicariance clearly does play a role in the diversification of pelagic organisms [ 9, 19], ecological speciation is increasingly being viewed as an important mode of diversification in the marine environment [ 2, 20- 22].
Margaret M. Chin, an associate professor of sociology at Hunter College who studies Asian-American immigrants, said local demographics were also playing a role in the diversification efforts, particularly among Manhattan and Brooklyn Chinese-American cram centers.
Flowers play a role in the diversification, the team says, but leaf veins help these plants become so abundant.
Many studies have suggested that sexual selection plays a role in the diversification of skin color and pattern in poison frogs.
Consistent with a role in transcriptome diversification, the expression levels and tissue preferences of promoters P1 and P2 in each gene were markedly different.
However, the sympatric clade with different call patterns suggests that at least in some cases the communication system played a role in the diversification of this group.
One might assume, that these genes therefore play a role in the diversification of lineages.
Salinity gradients or breaks have clearly played a role in the diversification of the genus Alosa.
