Sentence examples for dramatic fitness from inspiring English sources

Through a flawless sense of the dramatic fitness of things, and by the moving, healing stoicism of her publicly borne grief, she subtly magnified the nation's sense of the scale of the loss, and therefore of Kennedy's actual political achievement.

Loss of gene function can have dramatic fitness consequences for individuals.

The dramatic fitness consequences of poor performance in this social system should lead to strong selection for adaptations related to siblicide in Nazca boobies, such as an endocrine milieu that facilitates the rapid onset of aggressive behavior.

Stated another way, populations can show adaptive divergence in traits that will not necessarily have dramatic fitness consequences.

Our work adds to these finding by demonstrating a pathogen-drug combination in which the majority of resistant genotypes are associated with dramatic fitness benefits in the absence of antimicrobial pressure.

While modest levels of exercise are better than nothing, he went on, "getting off the couch is the first step, but vigorous activity has a much more dramatic effect on fitness level".

Setting ρ to either 1 or 0 were both found to result in a dramatic drop in fitness but with different specific effects.

While some species have learned to ignore humans, others do not seem to habituate to increased human disturbance, which leads to dramatic decreases in fitness (Kerley et al. 2002; Thomas et al. 2003; Yasue 2005).

But relaxed selection owing to a single generation of hatchery culture seems an unlikely explanation for dramatic declines in fitness unless salmon carry an extraordinary standing genetic load (e.g. Launey and Hedgecock 2001).

It was able to generate hybrid vigor for offspring of crosses between populations that had been allowed to diverge for several generations, and it also displayed a dramatic fall in fitness as the genetic distance between parents increased to the point of preventing the formation of viable offspring.

Since modifications of the function of the main receptor form may have dramatic consequences on fitness and may not reach significant frequency in the general population, genetic variations in alternative exons that are expressed at low levels or only under specific conditions may lead to more subtle phenotypic differences that underlie the observed variation in OPRM1-dependent phenotypes.