Sentence examples for be a selective agent from inspiring English sources

Lufenuron is an insecticide primarily used to control fleas and so it seems unlikely to be a selective agent; however, it demonstrates a functionality that may be selected in response to some other environmental toxin.

Sexual selection is different, however, because there really is supposed to be a selective agent (a force of a sort) at work, which may not be explained wholly through physical and chemical forces – if these forces and their theoretical structure ignore mind in nature, as they generally do in the prevailing materialist paradigm.

Fidaxomicin (Dificid) is a selective agent for Clostridium difficile that received FDA approval in 2011 and, similarly, surotomycin (Cubist) is a compound directed to C. difficile in phase III clinical trials.

WMC-79, the best known compound in this series, was found to be a selective cytotoxic agent in a number of tumor cell lines.

A parsimonious explanation for this apparent conflict between this ecomorphological paradigm and our results is that predation by piscivores is not a selective agent in our study system.

Dispersal ecology theory was recently applied to this problem, and metabolic rate, determined by resource heterogeneity within primary tumours, was considered a selective agent for high cell motility (Anderson et al. 2006; Chen et al. 2011; Aktipis et al. 2012).

UMB66 is thus a selective agent for the study of GHB in vivo.

However, hypericin (HY), an extract from Hypericum perforatum, has recently been shown to be a selective anti-tumor PS agent with high-quantum yields and a low cytotoxicity.

Allyl alcohol was applied as a selective agent; it is oxidized by AOX to acrolein.

As a result, Wolbachia is predicted to be an influential selective agent in its host insect's evolution [10].

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