Sentence examples for evolutionary reduction from inspiring English sources

This insensitivity, however, is not due to the existence of different receptors in humans and dogs but is the result of an evolutionary reduction in the size of the nasal epithelium in humans that causes inhaled air to bypass the epithelium.

This event represents a process of evolutionary reduction in the size of the proteins, with repercussion on their spatial arrangement and, so, on their functional properties.

Many tyrosine residues of human 26S proteasome reported to be phosphorylated are conserved even in yeast, which is surprising in light of the limited overlap of proteasome phosphosites between the two species and the evolutionary reduction of tyrosine phosphorylation in higher organisms (Tan et al., 2009).

Specifically, it is unclear whether they still fulfill any essential function or have become effectively obsolete during their considerable evolutionary reduction.

Together with the absence of Bax targeting to these organelles, this argues against a direct interaction of Bax with mitosomes and suggests a high degree of degeneration during evolutionary reduction.

The paradox of robustness arises from evolutionary dynamics: enhanced robustness causes an evolutionary reduction in the adaptive performance of the target character, leading to a degree of maladaptation compared to what could be achieved by natural selection in the absence of robustness mechanisms.

We hypothesize that peroxisomes are generally the first compartment to be lost during evolutionary reductions of the eukaryotic cell.

In order to further improve the adaptability of attribute reduction and enhance its application performance in large-scale attribute reduction, a more efficient attribute self-adaptive co-evolutionary reduction algorithm by combining quantum elitist frogs and cloud model operators (QECMASCR) is proposed in this paper.

In plants that have lost the matK gene, the group IIA introns, the principle targets for MatK protein activity, were also lost, suggesting co-evolutionary reduction and supporting the proposed function of MatK as a group IIA intron maturase of the plastid [ 11].

Nehm and Schonfeld (2007), studying teachers from New York, reported that their semester-long intervention with >40 science teachers also produced significant and meaningful gains in teachers' knowledge of evolutionary concepts, reductions in common alternative conceptions, and more informed views of NOS.

Other authorities have agreed, however, that flatworms may be secondarily simplified; that is, they may have degenerated from more-complex animals by an evolutionary loss or reduction of complexity.