Sentence examples for episodes of selection from inspiring English sources

Also, the scans can see only recent episodes of selection — probably just those that occurred within the last 5,000 to 25,000 years or so.

And this is selection that occurred in just the last 25,000 to 5,000 years, because the signal from older episodes of selection is muffled by constant mutation in the DNA sequence.

We then calculated the opportunity for selection and selection differentials on body size for both sexes during three consecutive episodes of selection.

This increase in reproductive rates in EE2-exposed females also appeared to have an effect on the trade-off between pre- and postmating episodes of selection.

In this study we aimed at identifying regions in the human genome with elevated or decreased levels of population differentiation potentially indicative of past episodes of selection.

A small number of sites in the mature human peptides were found to have undergone repeated episodes of selection in different primate lineages.

My answer is always an unambiguous "Yes!" A recently published paper illustrates a dramatic episode of selection that happened in China a mere 50 years ago, the effects of which continue to reverberate through Chinese society.

Population growth and migrations subsequent to this ancient episode of selection would explain the present day distribution of this allele across a wide variety of climactic conditions [19], notably in the Americas.

For instance, no single episode of selection made up the vast majority of the male selection differentials (Table  1).

For both treatments, the largest contribution to the total selection on body size in females was from the first episode of selection, mating success.

The second episode of selection measures reproductive success per pregnancy and suggests that larger males are receiving a greater number of eggs.