Sentence examples for by conscious selection for from inspiring English sources

This coevolution involved initial unconscious selection for larger-seeded genotypes with reduced shattering and dormancy, augmented, subsequently, by conscious selection for other traits (reviewed by Cox 2009).

Biodegradation is a process where competition for carbon sources often results in antagonistic interactions between microorganisms, therefore the odds of successfully introducing certain microbes into the polluted environment will be increased by conscious selection.

Whether these phenotypic differences in lab strains are driven by conscious selection, inadvertent selection, a relaxation in selection, or are simply the fixation of deleterious mutations, is not known.

Therefore, the control populations experienced all conditions similar to the selected populations except that they were not under any conscious selection for the timing of emergence.

Selection, both intentionally by humans (conscious selection) and as a result of environmental factors (natural or automatic selection) has, in most crops, established the traits associated with the domestication syndrome (Hammer, 1984).

Shadle points out that the classical canon is rooted in "conscious selection performed by individuals in positions of power".

We made a conscious selection of different phenotypes to avoid an unnaturally uniform patient population for this pilot study.

Second, conscious selection behavior is also observed, but it becomes weaker as time goes on.

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte is the selection for November.

Mice at 12 weeks of age infused for 14 days were examined by conscious echocardiography.

Box office success has seldom by itself inspired selections for this coveted award.