Sentence examples for clock hypothesis from inspiring English sources

Tajima, F. Simple methods for testing the molecular evolutionary clock hypothesis.

The ultrametric tree (UT) is a commonly used model for evolutionary trees assuming that the rate of evolution is constant (molecular clock hypothesis).

Tests of the molecular clock hypothesis indicate that the variations in the rates of molecular evolution are substantially larger than would be expected according to the neutrality theory.

Although our observations could be explained by decelerated clock hypothesis in line with the observations with the circadian clock19, the predictions of this account was not confirmed when Afh mutants were tested in the temporal discrimination task (i.e., Fig. 4e).

In the early 1960s, biochemists Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed the molecular clock hypothesis (MCH): that sequence differences between homologous proteins could be used to calculate the time since two species diverged.

Protein sequencing had great potential for the quantitative study of evolution (through the molecular clock hypothesis), but leading evolutionary biologists questioned the relevance of molecular biology for answering the big questions of evolutionary causation.

The clock hypothesis was tested with the likelihood ratio test.

Some early experimental evidence [34], [35] supports a "Molecular Clock" hypothesis.

If this hypothesis is rejected, then the molecular clock hypothesis can be rejected for this set of sequences.

The greater the variations, on average, the greater the time since the last clonal evolution cycle ("a molecular clock hypothesis").

The incentive here is that the clock hypothesis is likely to hold for closely related species [4] [6].