Sentence examples for ancient regions from inspiring English sources

Thirteen candidate "ancient" regions of the genome were selected.

The insertions tag ancient regions of the genome that are unaffected by the recent growth in population, Dr. Huff said.

Rivers divide it into three ancient regions: Cunninghame, north of the River Irvine; Kyle, between the Irvine and Doon; and Carrick, south of the Doon.

And yes we also begin to see that the arrangement of the brain is partly an evolutionary archaeology: the most primitive and ancient regions lie farthest down while the surface folds of the cortex are closest to the human in both time and function.

The researchers recruited 19 female students and placed them in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to monitor the caudate nucleus and the nucleus accumbens, ancient regions of the brain, which produce feelings of pleasure and fulfillment.

Alu insertions are rare events but once inserted, they are hard to remove--a 300-basepair-length of an Alu is seldom lost in entirety, so Alu insertions work like fossils to mark ancient regions of the genome.

Here are some of the great conflicts that have been fought over this ancient region.

Ionia, ancient region comprising the central sector of the western coast of Anatolia (now in Turkey).

The Carian Trail – named after the ancient region of Caria in south-west Asia Minor – recently opened to the public.

Priorat itself is both old and new, an ancient region that few outside Catalonia had heard of 30 years ago.

Gévaudan, ancient region of France, formerly located in the southern province of Languedoc and corresponding to most of the modern département of Lozère.