Sentence examples for evolutionarily retained from inspiring English sources
They are able to hear, although no external ear is present, and have a number of unique features in their skeleton, some of them apparently evolutionarily retained from fish.
Why is the RBf2 gene evolutionarily retained throughout the Drosophila lineage, despite the modest phenotype?
Many of the genes evolutionarily retained in endosymbiont genomes are those required for biosynthesis of nutrients essential to the host.
This may represent a conserved interaction, as the presence of a polar residue at position 407 has been evolutionarily retained.
Based on our knowledge of Neurospora telomere binding proteins, it is likely that Tbf1 end-capping in S. cerevisiae [ 25] is a remnant of an evolutionarily retained function.
Our results show that embracement of chromosomal DNA is a predominant feature of Smc ScpAB, which has been evolutionarily retained in cohesin and likely all other SMC kleisin complexes as well.
We here demonstrate with a global expression database of human infant sclera that the sclera derived from the neural crest evolutionarily retains characteristics of cartilage.
This expansion was due primarily to large-scale duplications of entire genomic regions as a result of separate polyploid events [40], [48] [52] throughout plant evolutionary time, rather than via tandem repeats, with a great deal of microsynteny retained even between evolutionarily distant plant species [53], [54].
Particularly if the phylogenetic distribution of the trait indicates that it was gained, and retained, independently in several evolutionarily distant groups of cyanobacteria, then one can seek evidence for the nature of its adaptive value in environmental characteristics that are common to the habitats typical of those particular groups, but absent in those lacking it.
They are evolutionarily derived from bacteria and have retained their own DNA and protein translation system, but they are also dependent on the cell for their growth and replication.
Within the resolution of our analysis, we found evidence that the genes that arose from duplication of the evolutionarily early GPRC5C-like genes are retained in vertebrate genomes, followed by a loss of one gene early in the vertebrate lineage (summarized in Figure 7).
