Sentence examples for function themselves from inspiring English sources

Recently, the major urinary proteins (Mups) have been shown to function themselves as genetically-encoded pheromones to regulate species-specific behavior.

The drawback of this design is that most strongly associated variants are likely to be in LD with the causal variant, rather than have a biological function themselves.

In contrast, the genetic variants within or close to the dopamine D5 receptor (DRD5), synaptosomal associated protein (SNAP-25), dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) and serotonin IB receptor (5HT1B) genes are not thought to alter gene function themselves.

In the context of the partnership between ants and plants bearing EF nectaries, secretions produced by nectaries function themselves as attractants, as carbohydrates and amino acids are a fundamental component of their diet (Blüthgen and Fiedler 2004; Detrain and Prieur 2014).

The nine Comprehensive Cancer Centres, covering the whole Netherlands, are regional network organisations of health-care professionals and institutes for cancer and palliative care aiming at improving cancer care through research, guideline development, knowledge exchange and organisational improvement without having a treatment function themselves.

Although the a priori hypothesis for this study involved the combination of lack of reported hand preference (described as 'mixed-handedness') with a measure of right-hand motor function, the measures of left- and right-hand motor function themselves may have produced more informative results.

That jacket looked functional, even if the functions themselves were a century out of date.

A functional breakdown was prepared, resulting in the system being divided into 5 main functions themselves divided into sub-functions.

The Mormon Church does not have a professional clergy, so its members perform the clergy's functions themselves, and they also tithe.

So are the functions themselves, regardless of how they are implemented in software, at least so long as the functions' inputs and outputs are indistinguishable.

Euler's innovation was to permit f and g to be what he called discontinuous curves (though in modern terminology it is their derivatives that are discontinuous, not the functions themselves).