Sentence examples for evolutionary assessment from inspiring English sources

A phylogenetic tree of the five RecQ family members supported their early duplication from an ancestral gene early in metazoan evolution [ 14] without any gene conversion events that would complicate the evolutionary assessment (Fig. 5).

We utilized various state-of-art molecular evolutionary assessment methods to determine the influence of natural selection on the evolution of genes encoding Shiva superfamily toxins (see Methods section for full details of the selection analyses).

The evolutionary assessment of insertion and deletion can be done in conjunction with sequence evolution to determine if a homoplasious site is more likely to not be homologous and have arisen by insertion and/or deletion (nonhomologous homoplasy) or if the homoplasious site is likely to actually be homologous through shared common ancestry (homologous homoplasy) (27- 28).

This complexity makes it difficult to obtain evolutionary assessments if, as is usually the case with fossils, only part of the skull is available.

Just as vaccine evaluation has been proposed to include evolutionary assessments—such as effects of vaccination on parasite transmission (Read and Mackinnon 2008)—we feel therapies which target immune-mediated virulence should likewise evaluate evolutionary risk.

Our results are in line with previous evolutionary assessments in these species that showed high genetic identity between the taxa from the P. mugo complex and outgroup Scots pine.

Reversion to virulence and recombination with wild-type strains may compromise OV safety, therefore requiring evolutionary risk assessment studies.

Fig. 9 Comparison of student scores on our evolutionary tree assessment containing 18 questions (N = 205) with the predicted binomial distribution of scores in a class of 205 if answers were randomly selected (n = 18, p = 0.5).

Evolutionary impact assessment (EvoIA) has been suggested as a framework in which the ecosystem approach to fisheries management and the potential for evolutionary change can be treated together when designing management actions (Jørgensen 2007).

This study provided an evolutionary genomic assessment of the roles of gene content, molecular adaptation of protein-coding loci, and the evolution of control region sequences in the diversification and adaptation of the SD species group.

The general, yet computationally simple, methods introduced here allow evaluating and comparing selection pressures on adaptive traits in other fish populations and species, and thus have the potential to become a tool for evolutionary impact assessment of harvesting.