Sentence examples for an evolutionary preference from inspiring English sources

In contrast, Casuarina strains have discarded rather than acquired genes to limit hosts and inhabited environments, suggestive of an evolutionary preference for specialist symbiosis.

Thus we see that subunits that undergo fusion are rarely observed in isolation, whereas this is quite common for protein complexes in general, suggesting an evolutionary preference for gene fusion events in obligate complexes.

To ask whether there was an evolutionary preference for reciprocal mutations that supported the formation of an intra- or interloop configuration we examined deviations from the canonical stem sequences across the bona fide monomers of the 27 mammals.

Therefore, these results argue against any evolutionary preference for fusions involving more obligately associated subunits at the intracomplex level, instead suggesting that selection for assembly conservation plays a more important role.

The high conservation of the C terminal Q-rich domain of GAF in insects, suggests that there is a strong evolutionary preference to maintain such associated structure and function.

And if, as one leading theory holds, this is all explained by our deeply rooted evolutionary preference for "affiliat[ing] with other forms of life", then it ought to follow that even non-green natural settings bring some benefits.

However, some evolutionary preferences seem to exist, and long-term established centromeres are frequently formed on long arrays of satellite DNAs and/or transposable elements.

Either of these possible explanations relies on an evolutionary and developmental preference to preserve frontal lobe volume.

She deftly reveals the level of absurdity of some arguments, pointing out that suggestions of an evolutionary basis for a preference for pink by girls and for blue by boys is ridiculous in the face of the recent emergence of this Western culture color code in only the past 50 years.

Auger et al. [30] incorporated preferences into an evolutionary many-objective optimization algorithm via weighted hyper-volume, and defined a preferred region of the objective space through a weighted function.

Some authors interpret these similarities as supporting an evolutionary theory of human landscape preferences (Appleton 1975; Orians 1986; Kaplan 2001).