Sentence examples for fundamental selective forces from inspiring English sources

Bacteria cope with at least six fundamental selective forces that have some degree of control over the size that will best suit them to survive in particular environments.

There is a profound difference on selective forces on wild and domestic animals.

We can, however, try to make guesses on the selective forces underlying their emergence.

Nevertheless, the selective forces underlying this high number of indels have not been identified.

Plastid genomes, also known as plastomes, are shaped by the selective forces acting on the fundamental cellular functions they code for and thus they are expected to preserve signatures of the adaptive path undertaken by different plant species during evolution.

Abiotic climatic factors like water availability and temperature are fundamental determinants of plant distribution and abundance (Boyer 1982) and act as strong selective forces on the evolution of plant physiology and form (Ehleringer and Monson 1993; Bohnert et al. 1995; Bray 1997).

Historically, these two selective "forces" have been presented by biologists as parallel forces, but with natural selection as by far the more important force.

Two different selective forces operated on the two branches of the stemma.

Boyd and Henrich are confident that selective forces in the cultural realm are stronger than selective forces in the genetic realm.

The selective forces that soil biota exert through changes in plant characteristics (either through changes in plant phenotype, plant genotype or plant species composition) on these aboveground herbivores are therefore a fundamental factor to understand the functioning of terrestrial communities.

Other selective forces may generate alternative effects on sequence diversity.