Sentence examples for genetic shift from inspiring English sources

One is that an earlier coronavirus that did not cause severe illness in people underwent a genetic shift that made it more virulent.

Plants raised from naturally pollinated seed will not necessarily be exactly like their parents, because each seed will contain the possibility of variation, a genetic shift which may give the plant some useful survival technique in generations to come.

Measuring differences between the ancient and modern DNA, Malhi and colleagues calculated a rough date for the genetic shift, about 175 years ago.

When influenza virus undergoes a genetic shift many humans have no immunity to the new strain, and if the population of susceptible individuals is high enough to maintain the chain of infection, pandemics occur.

The worldwide spread of the disease is providing more opportunities for viral re-assortment within a host (genetic shift) and mutation over time (genetic drift).

In the following years, due to the virus rapid evolution by genetic drift and genetic shift, a diversity of H5N1 genotypes were isolated and multiple sublineages were established in southern China [6], [8].

Seasonality produces alternating periods of high transmission and population bottlenecks that limit strain diversity and cause rapid genetic shifts.

Now, researchers can actually track the population-level genetic shifts that mark evolution in action even in humans.

Now, thanks to the genomic revolution, researchers can actually track the population-level genetic shifts that mark evolution in action and they're doing this in humans.

At last week's Biology of Genomes meeting here, researchers reported that domesticated rabbits, instead of arising through changes in just one or two genes, have many subtle genetic shifts distinguishing them from wild rabbits.

So within a few years, the culture of the baboon tribe changed, without any major genetic shifts.