Sentence examples for be a selective pressure from inspiring English sources

Emily Monosson, an environmental toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst said: "It wouldn't be unexpected that being exposed to a contaminant that makes you sick would be a selective pressure on humans".

Tee et al.20 show that EV-A71 phylogenetic trees display a ladder-like morphology, suggesting that immune evasion may be a selective pressure producing antigenic drift within EV-A71 cyclical sub-genotypes.

In this situation, senescence would be a selective pressure for senescence-evading cells, and these senescence-evading cells may need more time to grow and metastasize.

The selective pressure to maintain protein size therefore does not appear to be a selective pressure for pleiotrophy/multi-functionality within individual proteins.

There would be a selective pressure to increase the proportion of these preferred codons in highly translated sequences, which would simultaneously tend to increase and decrease.

We conclude that the selective pressure to maintain a large protein size at least partially may be a selective pressure to entertain more protein-protein interactions.

Adaptive evolution or positive selection is a selective pressure placed on a protein by a change in environment in order to improve the fitness of the organism in that environment.

These results suggest that antigen stimulation may provide survival signals to tumor cells and that there is a selective pressure to preserve antigen recognition as the tumor evolves.

The scientists said that the results indicated that fire was a selective pressure that shaped seed traits, and had more of a defining influence than other environmental factors, such as drought.

Under the presence of noise, there is a selective pressure to avoid the turning points (basin boundaries) that exist within the distance δp from the "target" orbit.

These results suggest that there was a selective pressure upon leukocytes to emigrate from the liver due to MSC-CM, unlike control conditions where leukocytes eventually migrated to the injured organ.