The phrase "ability for survival" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or skills necessary for an organism or individual to continue living or thriving in a particular environment or situation.
Example: "The ability for survival in harsh conditions is crucial for many species in the wild."
Alternatives: "capacity for survival" or "survival skills".
Thus, the process of developing perennial cultivars of rice should include screening annual cultivars to identify those with the best combining ability for survival.
Azucena and IR47686-1-4-B, both japonicultivarsars, exhibited greater general combining ability for survival relative to the six other cultivar parents.
The loss of life -- human, animal, plant and animal -- diminishes our ability for survival.
More rapid endpoints are of interest only to the degree that they have some predictive ability for survival.
Strong adhesion mechanisms, such as those found often in the Proteobacteria, probably represent an essential ability for survival in the early stages of plaque formation, particularly for non-motile cells.
The bias-corrected concordance indexes of the nomogram and the AJCC TNM staging system were calculated to compare their predictive abilities for survival.
Navigation technology is an essential ability for the survival and development of animal and human.
Choodari-Oskooei et al. [ 1] described the properties that a 'good' measure of predictive ability for a survival model should possess.
These results indicate that our E2F4 target gene signature is enriched for genes with predictive ability for patient survival in breast cancer.
Many evidences have demonstrated that mitochondria is the central to oxidative stress, and tumor cell self has anti-oxidant ability for its survival and metastasis [ 8- 15].
The overall concordance index (C index) was used to measure the discrimination ability for the survival analysis models generated by the PMHI and RMI, with a value of 0.5 having no discriminative ability and a score of 1.0 having perfect discriminative ability [ 13].
