Sentence examples for described dominant from inspiring English sources

In the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria, two alternative male strategies have been described: dominant males adopt a perching strategy monopolizing large sunspots on the forest floor, and subdominant males adopt a patrolling strategy.

Depending on the genotypes, they display varying strengths, similar to the previously described dominant alleles leo tw28 and leo tq270 (Haffter et al., 1996; Watanabe et al., 2006).

Therefore, as an alternative approach to obtain independent evidence for KIF17's role in D1R ciliary localization, we tested the effect of a different and previously described dominant negative KIF17 construct (Jenkins et al. 2006).

Furthermore, we have constructed stable cell lines that provide the extracellular pool with either wild-type survivin (Surv-WT) or the previously described dominant-negative mutant survivin (Surv-T34A), which has proven pro-apoptotic effects in cancer cells but not in normal proliferating cells.

In May 1999, a pilot study was conducted to identify mesopelagic nekton, describe dominant physical characteristics of their habitat, and compare their relative abundances over several study sites in the southeastern Bering Sea.

My presentation addresses this oversight by exploring the work of surveillance artists that stage surveillance as a "technology of gender", a term coined by feminist film theorist Teresa de Lauretis to describe dominant visual media, such as Hollywood cinema, that produce and maintain gender norms.

The old strata types had 3 fields: a 2 digit species code that described the dominant species or species mix, a 1 digit size-class code that described the dominant tree size, and a 1 digit canopy density code that described the degree of canopy closure.

The neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has described how dominant baboons in troops on the African plains verbally and physically abuse their subordinates.

In animal behaviour, a ruling animal in a social grouping is described as dominant.

The continuum is well described by dominant disc blackbody emission plus Comptonized emission.

The CEO was described as dominant, cleaning out the old management, and doing whatever it took, mirroring the characteristics of executives involved in recent high-profile fraud cases.