Sentence examples for evolution or selection from inspiring English sources

We identify whether each genetic locus has a signature of neutral evolution or selection and analyze each selective category separately.

The unique environment of the lung, rich in alveolar macrophages and with specialized local immune responses, may contribute to differential evolution or selection of HIV-1.

A corollary to this is that animals with a diet consisting primarily of animal matter would have little need for such enzymes, and the genes encoding these enzymes would become dysfunctional through either neutral evolution or selection to conserve energy associated with enzyme synthesis ('use it or lose it').

The activating fraction may predispose a network to oscillate or reach steady state, and neutral evolution or selection of this parameter may affect the behavior of biological networks.

The SELEX process allows evolution or selection of molecules with highest affinity by their exponential enrichment among a population of random sequence nucleic acid library.

There were no noticeable differences in either the type of repeated evolution or selection pressure reported between morphological, behavioral or physiological adaptations.

The gastrointestinal tract of animals harbors a large, complex, and dynamic microbial community, and the composition of this community ultimately reflects the co-evolution or selection of microorganisms with their animal host and the diet adopted by the host.

Values of ω < 1, = 1 and > 1 refer to negative purifying selection, neutral evolution or positive selection, respectively.

The "neutralist/selectionist controversy" concerns whether adaptation drives sequence evolution (selectionism) or selection serves mainly as a constraint on sequence evolution (neutralism) (Kreitman 1996; Ohta 1996).

Adaptive evolution or positive selection is a selective pressure placed on a protein by a change in environment in order to improve the fitness of the organism in that environment.

They are then defining genetic drift as they would define evolution or natural selection, perhaps because they think all evolution is natural selection (Jakobi, 2010).