Sentence examples for a selection experiment from inspiring English sources

By a selection experiment in which they selected two of the newly variable traits (wings and eyes), they have shown that this new variation is heritable.

In 2009, a selection experiment was initiated to select for reduced number of bite marks at pelting, at the mink farm at the Research Centre Foulum in Denmark.

Here we report the results of a selection experiment in which we selected directly on female mating preference for attractive males and, independently, on male attractiveness in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.

A selection experiment initiated in 1957 was designed to select two chicken lines for high- and low-body weight from the same base population, which consisted of crosses between seven partly inbred lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens.

(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) was studied in the laboratory, using isofemale lines, a selection experiment and F1 and F2 crosses between the selected line (S) and an unselected control line (C).

Here, we present the results of a selection experiment that provides a comprehensive picture of the evolutionary legacy of size-selective harvesting by examining its phenotypic, genetic, and population-level consequences.

For example, gene expression patterns have been analyzed in the following contexts: a) selection experiments for heat and cold resistance [ 8, 9]; b) Drosophila lines subjected to different heat treatments [ 10]; and c) natural populations corresponding to different geographical locations [ 11].

Here, we carried out a fifteen-generation sexperimentxperiment and a reciprocal sowing experiment (over 5 years in total) using Arabidopsis thaliana (wild-type Columbia) as a model plant to examine multi-generation maternal effects of elevated CO2 on plant growth and development.

Two critical components of a successful selection experiment are having a pure target protein and its immobilization in a native conformation.

Data were analysed from a divergent selection experiment for an indicator of body composition in the mouse, the ratio of gonadal fat pad to body weight (GFPR).

This partial inhibition would lead to a weak QS-based selective pressure that would preclude a definitive selection experiment in our media.