Sentence examples for a selection pressure from inspiring English sources

A biological assay in which a metagenomic library of DNA is expressed in a naive host and then the host is exposed to a selection pressure to select for DNA that confers a fitness advantage against the selection pressure.

Secondly, treatment is a selection pressure but other pressures can select other mutations appearing in both treated and untreated sets.

Secondly, a selection pressure does not indicate whether an allele is significantly selected against within a particular population.

There appears to be a selection pressure operating here: people interested in science are more likely to become Christians, and/or Christians are more likely to study science than the arts.

One hypothesis is therefore that by picking dogs that raise their inner eye brow more, humans simply follow their preference for paedomorphic facial characteristics, a preference which might have acted as a selection pressure during dog domestication18,19.

This modular assembly implies a selection pressure favoring substrate channeling.

In this context, the propensity of a cell to undergo apoptosis could be viewed as a selection pressure that a tumor cell must overcome.

Next, they added a selection pressure: The bacteria were grown on food lacking the amino acids that CM helps to make.

It's an evolutionary inevitability that resistance will build up at some point, [because] we're applying a selection pressure, and the pests will respond".

Long-term exposure to metals imposes a selection pressure that favors the proliferation of microbes that are tolerant/resistant to this stress (Duruibe et al. 2007).

Long-term release of such wastewater may result in the accumulation of heavy metals in soil exerting a selection pressure on soil micro-biota.