Sentence examples for anthropogenic selection from inspiring English sources

This leads us to the conclusion that the phenotypic differentiation observed in the Mongolian breeds might be due mainly to recent anthropogenic selection, which will change allele frequencies in selected genes rather than in neutral markers.

Models created from locations in both the invaded and native ranges can lead to a more complete understanding of an introduced species' potential for spread, especially in the case of anthropogenic selection.

The disease eradication trial provides a unique opportunity to elucidate the long-term effects of anthropogenic selection on DFTD evolution.

In addition to changing mean trait values, anthropogenic selection could have contradictory effects on the variance of traits.

Anthropogenic selection (including domestication and breeding for particular traits in the laboratory) could have additionally led to artificial selection for cancer resistance or susceptibility.

As non-managed and marginal habitats are converted to agricultural use to meet this need, interactions between cultivated crops, associated anthropogenic selection pressures, and wild plant species increases.

Impacted populations must respond to these anthropogenic selective pressures by evolving life histories that are more fit to the newly selected, composite adaptive landscape that results from the combination of anthropogenic and natural selection.

Rice landraces have evolved from their wild progenitor mostly by anthropogenic and natural selection (Zong et al. 2007) and nevertheless retain huge genetic diversity (Frankel and Soule 1981; Nguyen 2002).

Many salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest are already threatened with extinction, so the effects of climate on absolute fitness (i.e. a population's capacity for replacing itself) warrant conservation concern, and must be considered in the context of a web of natural and anthropogenic agents of selection (Waples et al. 2008).

These clones might represent 'general-purpose genotypes' [ 56] with broad ecological tolerance, which predominate in fluctuating environments through selection, although anthropogenic activities, e.g., insecticide selection pressure might also be involved [ 9, 52].

Moreover, anthropogenic and climate-induced selection may be tremendous driving forces in shaping individual traits and behaviors (Allendorf and Hard 2009; Tuomainen and Candolin 2011).