The phrase "and may be flanked" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something can be bordered or surrounded by other elements.
Example: "The main building is centrally located, and may be flanked by additional structures in the future."
Alternatives: "and could be surrounded" or "and might be bordered".
Another scenario that could contribute to the persistence of recombination between myo-sex and the M-locus is that the M-locus may be flanked by recombination hotspots, which may have a high intrinsic rate of recombination.
Mr Putin may be flanked by China's Xi Jinping, but few other notables.
Paneled doors may be flanked by fluted Ionic columns, framed by narrow windows known as side lights and topped by delicate fan lights, elliptical windows with leaded panes in a fan-shaped array.
He may be flanked by his jobs commission, headed by the CEO of General Electric, which earlier issued a lame interim jobs report.
In S. cerevisiae, replication origins are mainly located at intergenic regions (IGR), which may be flanked by genes transcribed co-directionally, convergently or divergently.
Indeed, escape genes may be flanked by sequences permissive for their externalisation or looping out from the Xist compartment to be in contact with the transcription factor in the nucleoplasm (reviewed in Heard and Bickmore 2007).
Although some of these Q/N-enriched segments may be flanked with prolines or charged residues that can reduce the likelihood of aggregation, it is established that long Q/N-enriched segments are essential for aggregation.
The conservation of bases flanking the consensus Su(H) binding site suggests that the Su(H) site may be flanked by additional binding sites for co-operative or competitive factors, or else, that Su(H) contacts additional bases besides the consensus heptamer.
Although some of these Q/N-enriched segments may be flanked with proline or charged residues that can reduce the likelihood of aggregation, it is established that long Q/N-enriched segments have a high propensity to beta-sheet aggregate and form self-propagating amyloid fibrils (Alberti et al., 2009 ; Fiumara et al., 2010 ; Kar et al., 2011 ; Klein et al., 2007 ; Lakhani et al., 2010 ).
The ability of NHEJ to both create and remove introns suggests an interesting scenario in intron evolution: introns gained by NHEJ may commonly be flanked by direct repeats [ 61], and introns flanked by direct repeats may be preferentially deleted by NHEJ [ 47, 57].
