Sentence examples for been under direct selection from inspiring English sources

Given that HSV is a viral pathogen, this functional conservation has most certainly not been under direct selection during evolution.

In contrast, genetic robustness is significantly correlated with network position, suggesting that genetic robustness has been under direct selection.

Only early season leaf length had a significant selection gradient (β = 1.32; Table 2), indicating it was the only trait included in the analysis that was under direct selection.

For example, the neuronal representations of a grammatical rule in two language users may differ heavily but they are still equivalent until they code for the same rule, as it is the rule that is under direct selection.

Alternatively, if both VAB and the nearby eye QTL are under direct selection, then eye reduction and VAB could have evolved together due to the combined fitness of their alleles.

This is more emphasized in situations where the phenotype is directly manifested in a different entity than the genotype, for example the gene-protein system, where (for sake of simplicity) the protein can be thought of as the entity that is under direct selection.

If the nearby eye QTL are not under direct selection (as Borowsky suggests may be the case for the QTL on LG 17), then eye-loss could have evolved indirectly via pleiotropy or hitchhiking, perhaps following some initial reduction in eye size due to direct selection at several other eye QTL.

By contrast, among the Poor wealth class only, maternal longevity was not under direct selection through its effects via offspring survival.

Most sexually selected traits are under directional selection [32].

We conclude that the primary structure of vertebrate genic DNA at and below the trinucleotide level has been governed over the long term by highly conserved regimes of NBDM which should be under direct natural selection because they alter drastically missense-mutation rates and hence the somatic and the germline mutational loads.

Nevertheless, it cannot be stated unequivocally that climate associations are indicative of loci under direct selection.