Sentence examples for accelerate evolutionary change from inspiring English sources
It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.
The active competition that ensued must have greatly accelerated evolutionary change, serving as a powerful force for the development of more efficient cells.
The AMPs abaecin, apidaecin, defensin and hymenoptaecin of the Asian honeybee Apis cerana show 2 to 13 different alleles at the protein level suggesting an accelerated evolutionary change [8].
Thus, a parasitic life style does not seem to contribute to this accelerated evolutionary change.
We note that the long branch-length between the rodent ARS sequences and the remaining ARSD clade may be an artifact due to the short mouse sequence and its high similarity to the rat sequence, which has undergone seemingly accelerated evolutionary change.
This data supports the hypothesis of accelerated evolutionary changes in alloplasmic lines observed here and in another study [ 49].
Evolutionary simulations show that plasticity can indeed accelerate evolutionary adaptation.
It is well known that arthropod mitochondrial genomes present some anomalous characteristics, like very high percentage of AT content, frequent gene rearrangements [ 36] or accelerated evolutionary rates likely related to phenotypic changes in body size or to parasitic lifestyle [ 37], all of which can limit their applicability in phylogenetic reconstruction.
Possible explanations for accelerated evolutionary rates of DNA sequences include relaxation or loss of functional constraints due to either changes in mode of nutrition, adaptations to new environmental conditions, genetic bottlenecks or obligate asexuality [ 22- 25].
We also showed that Rodentia and Scandentia have an accelerated evolutionary rate with a unique evolutionary pattern.
Related to this idea are advances in understanding of the accelerated evolutionary rates of some genes.
