Sentence examples for extant patterns from inspiring English sources

Finally, although we focus on gene expression levels, our approaches provide the conceptual foundation for understanding the evolutionary forces shaping extant patterns of variation in other genetically tractable functional genomics phenotypes.

Although shifts in diet and prey availability likely have influenced extant patterns of body size in speckled rattlesnakes, diet alteration alone is not sufficient to explain the clear relationship between log SVL and log island area.

Instead, we chose to simply ask: what are the extant patterns of responses?

To better understand extant patterns in Neotropical biodiversity, we investigated the evolutionary history of three Neotropical swallowtail Troidini genera (Papilionidae).

Elucidating the relative contributions of genetic drift and natural selection to extant patterns of genetic variation is also important.

As a corollary, extant patterns of duplicability need not be representative of the forces driving family size evolution in the longer term.

It is tempting to speculate that Group 1b represents the "native" carriage population for China and possibly other Asian countries, and the extant pattern is a footprint from times preceding mass global migration.

This scenario could lead to an extant pattern of many shallow gains of salt tolerance dispersed across the phylogeny.

Furthermore, cataclysmic numbers of differential losses of these paralogs would have to occur on independent lineages to generate the extant pattern.

Based on the extant pattern of halophytes, our analysis suggests that salt tolerance has been gained at least 600 times in the 22 families analyzed.

The occurrence of several species-specific duplication and gene and/or operon loss events finally led to the extant pattern of copy number/type observed in modern-day Burkholderia.