'functional linkage' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the relationship between different elements of a system that are designed to interact with each other in order to achieve a common purpose. For example: The functional linkage between the software application and the database ensures that the data is accurately transferred.
For example, a custom Cytoscape viewer shows functional linkage graphs relevant to the gene or function of interest.
Satoyama, a traditional socio-ecological production landscape, which provided a functional linkage between paddy fields and the associated environment has lost its functions.
Linghu, B., Snitkin, E.S., Hu, Z., Xia, Y. & Delisi, C. Genome-wide prioritization of disease genes and identification of disease disease associations from an integrated human functional linkage network.
In Arabidopsis, Hpa1-enhanced growth associates with photosynthetic physiology and is attributable to increases of mesophyll conductance (gm) to CO2 and net photosynthesis (AN) rate15, indicating the functional linkage of Hpa1 to PIPs that may facilitate CO2 transport16,17.
This molecular data is suggestive of a functional linkage between the microbiology of the site and the apparent natural attenuation process.
A functional linkage between potent induction of the major CYP (1 3) genes and transcriptional down-regulation of MDR1 gene in drug-resistant tumor cells is hereby hypothesized.
To more fully understand the functional linkage between DH and PH domains, we have determined the crystal structure of the DH/PH fragment of Dbs without bound GTPase.
The functional linkage between Gag and PR provides targets for novel therapeutics to inhibit drug-resistant viruses.
Here we report that both NBS cell lines and individuals with NBS are hypersensitive to MMC, indicating that there may be functional linkage between FA and NBS.
If this were the case, the ubiquity of fractals also makes it more difficult to determine a functional linkage between any pair of them.
Although it has been proposed that the transmission of information from the visuosensory to the motor map plays an important role in the generation of visually guided saccades, experiments have failed to demonstrate any functional linkage between the two layers.
