Sentence examples for been a selective force from inspiring English sources
Although the recent parasitoid-host system seems to be stable in terms of coexistence of both species, an acoustically hunting parasitoid could have been a selective force during evolution of prime numbered periodicity in cicadas.
Human selection in plant domestication and improvement has foresight and strategy, but is a selective force that, unless using induced mutation, must rely on the same generators of change as blind natural selection.
They found considerable genetic variation for glyphosate tolerance, indicating that the chemical can be a selective force.
The best evidence available to Dr. Boyd and Dr. Richerson for culture being a selective force was the lactose tolerance found in many northern Europeans.
This is a selective force in the internet's media ecology: if you want to start a company that lets users remix TV shows, you'll find it easier to raise capital if the focus is on taking the piss rather than glorifying the programmes.
However, in urban contexts, acoustic masking could be a selective force when coupled to other factors that covary with the amount of noise produced by human activities, such as habitat loss and degradation.
Thus, pressure to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of intraspecific vocalizations could be a selective force fostering the convergence of these frog species on high-frequency communication.
This abnormally high cytosolic calcium content could be a selective force for mutant PfSERCA as an enhanced activity of this pump is needed in such environments to restore physiological intracellular calcium stores [60] [61].
If biosynthetic cost is a selective force acting on cells, we expect to observe a negative correlation between the biosynthetic cost of the encoded protein and gene expression levels [2], [6].
If cost minimisation does however prove to be a selective force on protein sequence evolution and amino acid biosynthetic costs vary considerably among groups or organisms we hypothesise that rates of protein sequence evolution may not follow universal trends across taxa.
