Sentence examples for be associated with selection from inspiring English sources

The authors suggest that this emphasis on goats could be associated with selection according to milk production, although it would also be interesting to know to what extent environmental factors are influencing herd compositions (e.g. Bendrey 2011; Krader 1955).

The increased dietary breadth at this isolated location appears to be associated with selection for distinct MIL2 and MIL3 allelic variants.

All these traits are predicted to be associated with selection for dispersal in ants, and we thus propose that we effectively observed a selected north-south gradient of vagility in both ant species.

The low participation may be associated with selection bias.

Positive selection in porin genes, particularly ompC thus may also be associated with selection to increase antibiotic resistance.

Positive selection in the Php2 seems to be associated with selection to avoid recognition by the antibiotic.

Moreover, the results suggested that survival to the age of 100 years is associated with selection of individuals with an "inverted" IRP that was stable across time, i.e., maintenance of a high CD4/CD8 ratio and low numbers of CD8+CD28− cells.

Here we ask if a greater level of phenotypic and evolutionary divergence than observed between ecotypes is associated with selection on more niche dimensions (i.e., colour and physiology).

In previous studies on extinction of FMDV by FU and FU-GU combinations, extinction failure was associated with selection of GU-resistant mutants harboring amino acid replacements in non-structural protein 2C [49].

These observations lead us to hypothesize that the development of tumor clones overexpressing the IFN/STAT1 pathway is associated with selection against IFNs, and perhaps other STAT1-activating ligands, secreted by the host microenvironment leading to the selection of cells resistant to the cytotoxic effects of transient STAT1 activation.

13 These studies were associated with selection problems as they investigated institutionalised individuals.