The phrase "attributed to a lesser" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is assigned or credited to someone or something of lower status or importance.
Example: "The success of the project was often attributed to a lesser-known team member who worked tirelessly behind the scenes."
Alternatives: "credited to a minor" or "assigned to a subordinate".
American publishers, he said, have been too timid in dealing with threats to their future — a problem that he attributed to a lesser cultural appreciation of the importance of the print media in the United States than in Germany.
Fractographic examinations aimed to suggest that this difference in mechanical properties was partly attributed to a lesser cohesion and brittle behavior of a β-rich layer found in the extreme surface of the overlay coating due to the deposition technique.
This may be attributed to a lesser association/attraction between MB and NCs due to the increased ionic strength.
The absence of a Trk in Drosophila has been attributed to a lesser need for plasticity of the insect nervous system[ 42].
In the sub-analysis, this significantly lower sensitivity could be attributed to a lesser performance in the MRSA strain subset especially.
In contrast, a lesser P TF) i may not be attributed to a less likely co-occurrence pattern of a TF.
However, this difference was disappeared in CB1R KO mice (Fig. 4B), suggesting that the difference in LTD between the two pathways is attributed to a greater contribution eCBs in LTD at the SC, but lesser at the PP.
Assuming that in this system, quenching occurs through Föster resonance energy transfer (FRET), this difference could be attributed to the lesser overlap of 2.8-nm NC emission band and MB absorption band compared to 3.3-nm NCs (Fig. 1).
The lack of correlation between the expression patterns in microarray and qRT-PCR in case of few genes in particular conditions, for example LOG in heat, LRK1 in drought etc., can be attributed to relatively lesser specificity of probes in microarray and array-platform bias (Lee et al. 2007).
The lower heritability of NIL can probably be attributed to the lesser amount of genetic variation present in these lines.
It may also be attributed to the lesser adhesive forces between adsorbate and adsorbent than the cohesive forces of the adsorbate (due to alkaline soil and adjusted alkaline media).
