Sentence examples for evolutionary selection pressure from inspiring English sources

That human penises are so relatively large indicates some evolutionary selection pressure on larger manhood.

Taking the biggest fish each year creates an evolutionary selection pressure: being big is bad.

Hence we conclude that the genomes of both influenza viruses and their hosts share a common evolutionary selection pressure at the nucleotide sequence level to eliminate CpGs in an AU context.

Enrichment of rare codon clusters in such a broad range of organisms suggests a general evolutionary selection pressure for clustering, despite the established negative effects on local translation rate.

Whereas this longevity may arise from non-genetic factors such as better health care, diet, lifestyle, etc., it might also have a genetic component, particularly in very old people, who survive to longevity in spite of the lack of any evolutionary selection pressure (except perhaps the so called 'grandmother effect [3]).

For a metabolic enzyme with an "ordered" structure, the particular conformation required for "induced fit" may have a very high negative conformational free energy chosen by evolutionary selection pressure over time and thus the issue of "context" may appear to be irrelevant in these cases.

Acoustic design of rodent ultrasonic signals and evolutionary selection pressures involved in this process are considered through a comparative approach to ultrasonic signal structure.

This research demonstrates for the first time that variable evolutionary selection pressures sculpt the intraspecific molecular diversity of venom components in C. o. helleri.

Thus, we not only highlight the tremendous biochemical diversity in C. o. helleri's venom-arsenal, but we also show that they experience remarkably variable strengths of evolutionary selection pressures, within each toxin class among populations and among toxin classes within each population.

The Consurf webserver [ 92] was used for mapping evolutionary selection pressures on 3D homology models.

These results indicate specific host factors and their functional groups experiencing pathogen driven evolutionary selection pressures.