Sentence examples for clear preference between from inspiring English sources

In choice experiments, neither species displayed any clear preference between kelp (fresh or aged), red macroalgae or periphyton (consumption rates ranged between 0.39 and 3.64 mg ind−1 day−1), but consumption rates were always higher relative to seagrass.

This makes the Convey variant slightly superior, however, we think that this difference is too small for a clear preference between the two pathways.

In contrast, the familiar object control group showed no clear preference between the test objects, presumably reflecting their acquired familiarity [93].

In cases when the respondent had a clear preference between cards but was not willing to sacrifice an additional 0.5 units of time off perfect health, a midpoint score was assigned.

The number of years in perfect health vs. in the PsA or SSc health state was varied in a "bisection" fashion until the patient no longer had a clear preference between living in the given health state or living the given amount of time in perfect health [ 25].

In Table S1 in Additional file 1, we also classified the 21 ChIP-Seq histone modifications into three types: active marks (related to active genes [ 16] or active enhancers [ 8]), repressive marks (related to inactive genes [ 16] or heterochromatin [ 21]), and moderate marks (no clear preference between active and inactive genes [ 16]).

Analysis of the SNPs that give rise to an amino acid change revealed clear preferences between indica and japonica subspecies for the SNPs in the D-type EUL genes.

Similar to other groups of eukaryotes, plant satellites show a clear preference for monomer sizes in ranges between 135 – 195 bp and their multiples [ 18].

Different Nck interaction partners show a clear preference to individual SH3 domains, and the interaction between Nck ligands and the different Nck SH3 domains are often found to be cooperative [ 10].

Interestingly, the bootstrap probabilities of the three topologies are 0.25, 0.73 and 0.02 indicating a clear preference for T2 (the ML tree) although the difference between T1 and T2 does not reach significance (see Additional file 5: Figure S5).

The question is how to reconcile the apparent lack of discrimination between dNTP at the binding step with the clear preference for accurate insertion of dCTP.