The phrase "adaptive selection pressure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to evolutionary biology, ecology, or any context where the concept of natural selection and environmental influences on species is relevant.
Example: "The rapid changes in climate have created an adaptive selection pressure that forces species to evolve more quickly to survive."
Alternatives: "evolutionary pressure" or "selective pressure".
Whether the functional divergences are primarily due to adaptive selection pressure or relaxed selective constraint remains an open question.
An offspring selection operator is used to introduce self adaptive selection pressure (Affenzeller and Wagner, 2005).
We did not argue that biophysical requirements result in either "contingency" or "determinism" under an adaptive selection pressure.
In our previous study, we demonstrated that tlr22 genes from several teleost taxa (Cyprinidae, Gasterosteidae, Salmonidae, Adrianichthyidae, Tetraodontidae) are under adaptive selection pressure [ 11].
These lower correlation values may be a result of more adaptive selection pressure acting on the X chromosome causing higher X-linked divergence (faster-X effect) as has been observed in embryos and adult Drosophila (Kayserili et al. 2012).
The existence of admix ancestry among five sub-populations (three population groups) reflected their complex breeding history involving inter-crossing and introgression among genotypes coupled with different strong adaptive selection pressure during domestication.
Genetic reassortment of influenza viruses is likely more rapid in aberrant hosts because of adaptive selection pressures (5).
Thus, the site-specific models failed to detect the influence of adaptive selection pressures in shaping evolution of the Shiva superfamily.
It has been postulated that similar variability in the C. jejuni LPS cassette is an adaptive response to selection pressure to evade host acquired immune responses [ 35].
Besides, viruses with robust polymerase complexes might be more capable of creating adaptive mutations under a selection pressure.
To demonstrate adaptive convergent evolution, it must be shown that shared phenotypes have evolved independently in different lineages and that a credible selection pressure underlies adaptive evolution.
