This model was implemented for lineages leading to parologous clades in the FoxA, FoxD, FoxO and FoxP clusters as positive selection is a potential evolutionary force driving subfamily paralog functional differentiation.
Rather, the annual reduction in sea ice by melting and export through the Fram Strait strongly diminish the habitat each year [ 15, 16], and is a potential evolutionary driver that has been active at least throughout the entire Quaternary [ 1, 2].
The role in negative feedback for interferon production might be a potential reason of evolutionary conservation of some regions in the primate Tetherin gene.
Though it was found that morphological traits do not change in a few years [ 41], laboratory adaptation may be a potential problem in most evolutionary studies [ 39], since it seems to change preadult development, fecundity, survival rate of females [ 45] and to decrease stress resistance [ 46].
There is some indication of consistent regional differences in parasitism of bramblings, with Finnish Lapland being a potential co-evolutionary hot spot (Figure 1C).
The 'non-causal' (or 'statistical' as it is sometimes called) view of evolution is certainly a radical one, since the idea that natural selection, in particular, is a potential cause of evolutionary change is virtually axiomatic in evolutionary biology, and routinely taught to students of the subject.
Fishing is now acknowledged as a potential evolutionary force, described as a 'massive uncontrolled experiment in evolutionary selection' (Stokes and Law 2000).
The gain/loss of mobile genetic elements such as CRISPRs and prophage are a potential driving force for evolutionary change.
The metal-binding cupins identified in the current study are a potential example of the evolutionary transition of an ancestrally sugar-binding double-stranded β-helix domain to an amino acid/peptide modifying enzyme.
Each one of these evolutionary units is a potential target for interventions including the application of novel eco-evo 'drugs' (Baquero et al. 2011).
