The phrase "acquisition of segments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to business, marketing, or data analysis, where segments refer to parts of a market or data set that are being obtained or targeted.
Example: "The acquisition of segments in the market will allow us to tailor our products to meet specific customer needs."
Alternatives: "gaining segments" or "obtaining segments".
These mechanisms can be assigned to three natural strategies to generate genetic variants: 1) local sequence changes, 2) intragenomic reshuffling of DNA segments, and 3) acquisition of a segment of foreign DNA.
Since the early 1990s, H9N2 viruses in land-based poultry have evolved from a less to a more diverse genotype through the acquisition of gene segments from other viruses.
Moreover, this asymmetry also suggests that, probably, the GI resulted from acquisition of DNA segments from different environmental reservoirs which were assembled together evolving toward gene specialization for β-myrcene utilization.
Therefore, further changes in receptor binding, as well as acquisition of genomic segments from other avian influenza virus strains through co-infection, would be required to increase fitness and transmissibility in mammals.
This and other information for all GIs is presented in Additional file 3. We identified GIs in B. pseudomallei based upon the aligned differences observed across multiple genomes, which could be explained by horizontal acquisition of DNA segments from other organisms.
Figure 12 shows the quantitative evaluation of a choroidal vessel, based on the acquisition of a segment scan time series, each consisting of 3250A-Scans over ~3°.
For the accelerated acquisition, the number of segments to be measured was reduced by the factor of 1/ R, in which R denoted the reduction or acceleration factor.
Bacterial genomes are extremely plastic and are continually changed by gene duplication and loss and by lateral gene transfer (the acquisition of novel DNA segments from unrelated sources).
Tri-plane TDI allows simultaneous acquisition of all LV segments during the same heartbeat rendering the technique more precise than the 2-dimensional (2D) TDI equivalent.
In the previous study [ 4], the authors suggested msEPI to be performed by the acquisition of all the segments in a single slice before continuing on to the next slices in turn.
