Sentence examples for antagonistic changes from inspiring English sources

Whether through nagging wall posts or antagonistic changes to their "relationship status," the social networking site is proving to be as good for broadcasting marital discord as it is for sharing vacation photos.

We therefore examined if T-DNA insertion lines for the six genes showed antagonistic changes in sense and antisense transcript levels.

With the exception of a moderate effect on the antisense gene of pair 1 (Figure 3A), none of these lines showed antagonistic changes in transcript levels of the partner genes, which does not argue for RNA interference or other quantitative effects regulating transcript levels (Figure 3).

RNAi effects should be responsive to quantitative changes in sense/antisense transcript ratios, but, except for a very small effect in gene pair 1, none of the three loci that were examined in this study showed significant antagonistic changes in sense or antisense transcript levels in T-DNA line where the concentration of the antagonistic partner transcript had been altered.

We speculate that these antagonistic changes may be part of the molecular machinery that mediates trade-offs between reproduction and lifespan [ 24].

Members of the Jonah, Cp, Twdl, and Mal gene families show antagonistic changes in transcript abundances after mating and as a result of aging, whereas Vm family members show changes in the same direction.

Both characters respond rapidly to selection for coordinated change, but there are striking differences in their response to selection for antagonistic, independent change across eyespots.

We targeted pairs of eyespots with artificial selection for coordinated (concerted selection) versus independent (antagonistic selection) change in their color composition and size and compared evolutionary responses of the two color pattern characters.

The frequency of the X-4 fusion was maintained at a constant value, whereas the frequency of an antagonistic allele (A2) changed deterministically from an initial value of 0.01 according to specified selection coefficients.

It has been reported that Th1 and Th2 cells and the cytokines they release are often mutually antagonistic, and a change in the cytokine profile from Th1 to Th2 could ameliorate Th1-mediated disease [ 29, 44].

The indirect interactions may be synergistic, neutral, or antagonistic in view of changes in transmissibility and virulence [ 2, 33, 35– 35].