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A general framework for understanding endocrine hormones suggests that OT may more generally have been shaped by selection to modulate allocation of limited resources.
Yet, relatively little is known about eco-evolutionary aspects of chemotaxis, such as how the network has been shaped by selection and to what extent natural populations may fine-tune their chemotactic behaviour to the ecological conditions.
These results support the eavesdropping hypothesis: aspects of the acoustic structure of soft signals in addition to low amplitude seem to have been shaped by selection to reduce transmission and avoid eavesdroppers.
Indeed it is hard to imagine that such a biasing could leave unaltered the capability of the matrices to recreate the intronic occurrence-preference relationship (whose mutational underpinnings are themselves very unlikely to have been shaped by selection of a nature that would mimic a selection regime typical for coding regions).
The high LD pattern described in the first part of Contig3 and Contig2 could have been shaped by selection.
So far we have tried to explain the substitution patterns using biases in molecular processes, but there is the possibility that substitution profiles have been shaped by selection.
The patterns would also be shaped by selection: amplified rDNA variants containing deleterious mutations would be selected against, partially explaining why we did not observe variation in the coding region.
Simulating protein evolution with simplified and all-atom models has shed light on the evolutionary dynamics of protein populations, the nature of evolved sequences and structures, and the extent to which today's proteins are shaped by selection pressures on folding, structure and function.
This study demonstrated that the social environment provided by adult queen and worker nestmates makes substantial contributions to genetic architecture for the studied phenotypes and can be shaped by selection [29].
Ant societies are shaped by selection that operates, in part, at the level of the colony [1], so the success of the individual is intimately bound to that of its colony.
