The phrase "affect the divergence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing how one factor influences the variation or separation of another factor, often in scientific or analytical discussions.
Example: "The new environmental policies may affect the divergence of species in the region."
Alternatives: "influence the variation of" or "impact the separation of".
The fact that almost 50% of the tissues in our sample evolve slowly and in a concerted fashion might disguise factors that affect the divergence of gene expression more generally.
For example, there are multiple families of LTR retrotransposons in mammals, but they probably didn't proliferate fast enough to sufficiently affect the divergence of different subpopulations, which is a prerequisite for the origin of new species with large families.
Thus, among other conclusions [ 15], it appears that divergence between species could also affect the divergence of LTRs, most likely due to the differences in the genomes since their split.
The additional rotational flux in (17b) corrects the profile of the energy flux, without affecting the divergence of the energy flux.
While the removal of fossil calibration points did not affect the divergence times of interest (i.e., Barbourula Bombina and within Barbourula), this analysis serves to underscore the need to critically evaluate calibration points as well as the importance of divergence estimation methods that incorporate uncertainty, including "relaxed" minimum divergence time calibrations [47].
Including the sponge data did not significantly affect the divergence time estimates for the main scleractinian nodes, indicating that these estimates are relatively robust, but did affect the estimate of the Corallimorpharia/Scleractinia divergence, placing it more than 50% deeper than previously estimated.
To analyze how the different rates of mutation affected the sequence divergence of the repetitive elements with time, we calculated the divergence rate per MYA using a previous estimate of 1.1 MYA of divergence between the T. monococcum and wheat A genome in the VRN2 region [ 67].
When comparisons were made between populations living in sympatry or in allopatry with brown trout, pairwise PST/ FST values were significantly different than 1 for all traits except intercirculi spacing during the first winter (Fig. 5C), suggesting that coexistence with brown trout may have affected the adaptive divergence of rainbow trout populations.
The first important question is to what extent the number k of local clocks can affect the estimation of divergence times.
The combination of G+I can overestimate the rate of molecular evolution and, consequently, affect the estimation of divergence times.
However, the three plastids are roughly equidistant indicating that secondary endosymbiosis did not affect the speed of divergence of plastid genes in B. natans (red, Figure 2b).
