Sentence examples for ancestral competitor from inspiring English sources
Competitions in chemostats were performed between the kanamycin-resistant, tetracycline-sensitive evolved clone BW4005.C6 derived from BW2952 and the kanamycin-susceptible tetracycline resistant BW3454 strain, which was used as the common reference ancestral competitor.
Since relative fitness measurements are made by direct competition of the derived and ancestral competitors, a t-test would be an appropriate statistical test.
However, this marker allows evolved and ancestral competitors to be distinguished and enumerated by plating on tetrazolium-arabinose (TA) indicator agar [ 1].
Relative fitness was quantified by calculating the ratio of the number of doublings for the derived and ancestral competitors (see [ 19] for details).
Prior to all fitness assays, ancestral and evolved competitors were both physiologically pre-conditioned in the competition environment.
Two of the most prominent examples of adaptive radiation, the Galapagos finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers, were, in fact, more likely triggered by the arrival of the ancestral species on competitor-free islands rather than by key innovations [5].
Moving from the evidence that - despite lack of translation - sequence conservation of pseudogenes suggests functionality, the authors proposed them as perfect endogenous competitors of their ancestral genes, because they retain many of the miRNA binding sites.
Adaptive radiation is usually triggered by ecological opportunity, arising through (i) the colonization of a new habitat by its progenitor; (ii) the extinction of competitors; or (iii) the emergence of an evolutionary key innovation in the ancestral lineage.
Because of the lack of competitors, Hypnomys was able to become more a burrower and thus to diverge from its ancestral condition, presumed to be that of Eliomys (i.e. forest and floor of rocky areas).
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