Sentence examples for be under selective forces from inspiring English sources
Apart from being dosage-compensated in males, the X-chromosome might also be under selective forces that do not act on the autosomes.
The structure of animal vocalisations is under different selective forces, such as body size, habitat characteristic or different functions [ 37].
Recent studies show that the founder strain evolves under selective forces and is distinct from the strain(s) dominant in the chronic infection phase [39] [41].
Several genes involved in determining skin color have been under selective pressure in Europeans and East Asians.
However, it may also reveal some selective force: GC-ending codons affect for example thermodynamic stability and hence mRNA secondary structures which may be under selection [ 43- 46] (see also Discussion).
It is, however, possible that genes related to alkaloid sequestration are under a strong selective force and are rapidly evolving.
There are two opposing selective forces.
To address this question, we first investigate a very simple mathematical model for a system of self-replicating RNA with strand displacement and show that if the system is well-mixed (under other simplifying assumptions), there is no selective force acting upon strand preference per se.
In conclusion, under the assumptions that k SP = k SM and that replicases do not discriminate between intra-species and inter-species replication, strand preference per se is not under any selective forces in a well-mixed system, and, therefore, contrary to a prior expectation from the optimization of the growth, its evolution is neutral.
These findings convey that divergent ZsMATα genes are under a selective driving force aimed to maintain functional integrity of the encoded transcription factors.
The possibility that fertility assurance is a major selective force in the evolution of female mate preferences for exaggerated male sexual ornaments has been discussed most extensively under the heading of the "phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis".
