Sentence examples for be a selective advantage from inspiring English sources
These events could potentially increase genomic variability and might therefore be a selective advantage to the strains possessing them under certain stressful conditions, whereas selection against them would be expected in changing environments [22].
Lack of neurogenesis after the connectional plan of the brain is complete would be a selective advantage".
As for the utility of being able to taste PTC, it appears that nontasters of PTC may have a higher than average rate of goitre, a disease of the thyroid gland sometimes associated with a lack of iodine; because PTC and related compounds contain iodine, there may be a selective advantage of some kind for tasters or nontasters in different environments.
It also reinforced the idea that there may be a selective advantage for the active preservation of subclonal heterogeneity, in some cases.
Nevertheless, genome variability may sometimes be a selective advantage.
Antigenic variability may therefore be considered to be a selective advantage at population level.
The first would be mechanistic barriers to cross BAPS cluster admixture via physical prevention or a gradual increase in genetic incompatibility as there is a selective advantage to reduce recombination and limit loss of advantageous genes.
Presumably there is a selective advantage to wound-induced stunting: possibly this response allows the plant to complete its life cycle with fewer cells requiring fewer resources.
We show how variable free myosin is a selective advantage for activating the muscle and describe a mechanism by which a conformational change in tropomyosin propagates free myosin given constant total myosin.
The localization acuity of H. cavitympanum is unknown, but if males exhibit similar performance to O. tormota, it would provide correlational evidence that localization acuity is a selective advantage of high-frequency hearing in anurans.
It is also possible that the structural proteins experience high variability precisely because it is a selective advantage for the virus to modify these proteins in response to the host immune system.
