Sentence examples for acting on attributes from inspiring English sources

Of course, as discussed in the introduction, selection may also be acting on attributes of protein sequence that are independent of these types of function.

Accordingly, the premotor parietal circuits instantiate evolutionary old systems for interactions with objects based on their perceptual attributes (acting on).

Heinsohn et al. (2005), for example, explored the reasons for a strikingly different plumage colouration in the Eclectus roratus parrot and found different selection pressures acting on males and females, attributed to sex-based differences in their lifestyle.

The discordance between MHC gene phylogenies and other gene phylogenies has similarly been seen among other vertebrate taxa (e.g. [ 24]) and has been attributed to balancing selecting acting on these loci due to their role in foreign peptide recognition.

Several dozen deaths a year of political opponents were attributed to his secret police, acting on tip-offs from the surveillance committees to which around 10% of Libyans belonged.

Figure 8 depicts that an increase in Gr results in the mass flux to increase in the direction of the fluid flow and this may be attributed to the buoyancy force acting on the fluid.

Another possible mechanism leading to node lengthening may be attributed to chronic mechanical forces acting on nervous tissue.

Sémon et al. (2006) have pointed out recently that differences in codon usage can be attributed to local mutational biases acting on clusters of human tissue-specific genes.

Faster evolution of male-biased genes is often attributed to stronger positive selection acting on male- than on female-biased genes (Zhang and Parsch 2005; Pröschel et al. 2006; Sawyer et al. 2007).

Heterogeneous slip distributions along faults are attributed to heterogeneity in the stress acting on those faults, as well as in fault strength (e.g., Andrews 1980; Ben-Zion and Sammis 2003).

Most of the evolutionary rate changes could be attributed to changes in selective constraints acting on nonsynonymous sites, independently of species-specific gene duplication and loss.