Sentence examples for escalating selection from inspiring English sources
The frequency with which the fittest recombinant MSV genomes arise also correlates directly with the escalating selection pressures imposed by increasingly MSV-resistant maize hosts.
Recent models suggest that escalating reciprocal selection among antagonistically interacting species is predicted to occur in areas of higher resource productivity.
Critics said the documentary makers would be unable or unwilling to criticise the design, selection process or escalating costs and delay of the project.
Investigation of molecular evolution at these various levels usually reveals diversifying selection and the selective maintenance of variation, resulting in positive selection at the genomic interfaces of escalating attack and defense systems [ 63].
The Gore plan is very expensive but it would provide protection against escalating prescription drug costs and solve adverse-selection problems; the Bush plan is less expensive but probably unworkable.
A cell line identified as highly methotrexate resistant (IC50 >8000-fold higher than other lines) was derived from a patient receiving escalating doses of the drug, indicating in vivo selection of resistance as a cause of relapse.
At that point, escalating the arms race will no longer be favored by natural selection, and the evolutionary one-upping will stop.
Escalating the repetitiveness is that gadid AFGP polyprotein genes have duplicated under selection from frigid marine conditions, forming multigene families that would meet the demand for an abundance of the survival protein.
In an evolutionary arms race, natural selection progressively escalates the defenses and counterdefenses of the species.
The fierce, and complicated, competition for the female vote has been escalated by Mr. McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.
KBR's military logistics business began to escalate rapidly with its selection for a $3.9 million contract in 1992, Mr. Cheney's last year at the Pentagon.
