Sentence examples for biased transfer from inspiring English sources

The challenge remains on how to clearly distinguish between patterns created through vertical inheritance and through biased transfer.

If biased transfer is the main force in defining groups at higher taxonomic level, then it is not surprising that most of the transfers are within this group.

One way to identify if biased transfer led to the cohesion of a prokaryotic group is that within-group phylogenetic patterns should reveal conflicts [ 15], whereas between-group transfer do not.

Only if large sets of genes are analyzed in a comparative study could one hope to detect the tighter grouping that results from frequent biased transfer.

As a result of biased transfer, we expect to observe similar distribution patterns between a specific gene tree and the ribosomal tree.

Cladistic and phenetic similarities can indeed be difficult to differentiate, and if apparent synapomorphies are frequently revealed to be the consequence of biased transfer, then a new terminology for the latter might be useful to describe the phenetic group defined by gene transfer bias.

HGT bias may also reflect shared ecological niches, susceptibility to similar transfer agents, or symbiotic relationships.

In light of the homeoallelic exemplars and other evidence for biased gene transfer [ 89- 91], we indeed need to reconcile our proposal to the possibility of phylogenetically biased transfers.

Firstly, as we have now articulated better in the manuscript, phylogenetically biased transfers occurring over "short" distances are averaged over so that sub-order relationships with potentially high frequencies of genetic exchange are not explicitly depicted.

It is tempting to speculate that the observation that gene transfer is biased towards transfer between closely related organisms [ 36, 40, 41] might reflect the fact that transfer between more divergent organisms is more frequently detrimental to the recipient, possibly because more molecular parasites might be acquired through these transfers.

The reviewer is correct that in case a group is created and held together through biased gene transfer, the transferred genes should result in tighter, more recent divergence of the group than genes that were vertically inherited.