Sentence examples for dictated selection from inspiring English sources

Moreover, it is also possible that the natural growth conditions of Synechocystis may have dictated selection for a relatively high proportion of essential genes.

As a result, unless influenced by traits not included in the analysis, selection for increased early season leaf length may have dictated selection for earlier emergence and increased early season height (Lande and Arnold 1983).

Conventional wisdom dictates selection of a gene that evolves at an appropriate pace for the phylogenetic question of interest, but this axiom often fails to illuminate the correct decision.

The need to remove ash quickly from transport routes and civil works dictated the selection of some disposal sites.

Technical specifications dictated the selection; Newcomer's vision of The War of the Worlds was infeasible, but Joust could be accomplished with Williams' available hardware.

He was utterly confident that he would succeed, believing "the logic of the situation," as he later put it, dictated his selection.

Nearly 40 years ago, Freeland and Janzen predicted that liver biotransformation enzymes dictated diet selection by herbivores.

As such, they are evolutionary endpoints resulting from long-term evolution as dictated by selection pressures only.

In some areas, experience of the local veterinary service staff with the community and nomadic lifestyle of the pastoral communities dictated the selection of herds for inclusion.

An economy of selection dictated the choice of other figures for this entry.

Moreover, just as the presence of any species alters its environment, a growing tumor alters its local environment, and thus the parameters that dictate selection for particular mutations change as the cancer develops (Gatenby and Gillies 2008).