The phrase "are traced backward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of following a sequence or origin in reverse order.
Example: "The origins of the tradition are traced backward to ancient rituals practiced by early civilizations."
Alternatives: "are followed back" or "are traced back".
Now if, as the series is traced backward, each element gets simpler and simpler, till it becomes so simple that its existence does not need further explanation, then a threatening infinite regress can get trumped by the finite.
Straightforwardly, the genealogy of alleles could be traced backward in time under the process of coalescence, during which the parameters of demographic model could be derived, including the change of effective population size and the time point on events of bottleneck and exponential growth.
Relevant publications (in English, French or Spanish) were traced backward and forward in time to identify additional data on the same patient cohort.
Outbreak-associated prairie dogs treated in Wisconsin veterinary facilities were traced backward and forward.
We further investigated whether established disease characteristics can be traced backward to BCAR3 expression levels in primary breast tumors.
Old phase-0 introns could be traced backward in time (i.e., green and purple, Additional file 9: Figure S8), a typical characteristic of ancient proteins constructed by shuffling of exon/modules [ 39, 48, 50, 51].
Each term can have multiple parents as well as multiple children and it is traced backward to the root of depth 0. If a gene ge is annotated with a GO term pe, then ge is annotated with all of the ancestor GO terms of pe.
In this approach, influences on receptors are traced back to individual sources at all locations in preceding times (hence the term backward).
Pseudo particles are numerically traced backward in time over a specified duration.
Participants were then traced backward and forward from year 0 to assess antidepressant use for a period covering 4 years before and 4 years after the diagnosis (i.e., years −4 to +4).
