Sentence examples for cause for this pattern from inspiring English sources

One possible cause for this pattern of degeneration is lack of use or stress in these particular areas of the joint; just as unused bone and unused muscle atrophy, so may unused cartilage.

The low diversity in the sequences recovered for both taxa however indicates that incomplete lineage sorting is a likely cause for this pattern, in particular the processes involved in divergence of peripheral isolates as a result of founder effects [17], [18].

A possible cause for this pattern is that PARP4 is currently undergoing a selective sweep [55] resulting in co-segregating SNPs.

In human cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, a seasonal pattern for acute and chronic P. aeruginosa infection has been identified [ 4] and the authors proposed respiratory viruses as the underlying cause for this pattern.

Also, a recent study at seeps on the Norwegian margin revealed a negative correlation between meio- and macrofaunal abundance, and predation pressure was speculated to be the underlying cause for this pattern (Van Gaever et al., 2009).

And while it is impossible to identify exact causes for this pattern, users may find it easier to browse items in the relatively low number of apps launched over the weekend".

The causes for this pattern are uncertain but may be related to a prevalence of thermophilic species in sea urchins [75], latitudinal differences in recruitment success [76] [77] and salinity tolerance [78], competitive and predatory interactions [79] [80], relief from predation due to overfishing [27], as well as high adaptability of sea urchins to environmental stress [81] [82].

Although the causes for this pattern of substitutions in conifer genes are unclear, the answer resides in what seems a unique picture of mutational processes and/or selective influences that affect conifer genes (see below).

The HIV-nurse and patient use the MEMS-report to identify patterns of non-adherence (e.g., weekends or regularly returning occasions) and the cause of this pattern; or the reasons for the most recent occurrences of non-adherence if there is no obvious pattern.

We are unable to comment on the cause for the pattern of osteoarthritis progression that we have observed in this paper, as this would require much more complicated biological and biomechanical methods, however at present such studies are not available with the length of follow up achieved in our cohort.

This leaves historical processes within the species as the most likely cause for the pattern.