Sentence examples for great selective advantage from inspiring English sources

Once a bacterium picks up such a gene, it enjoys a great selective advantage because it can grow in the presence of the antibiotic.

However, the energy reserves in the collagen of whalebones were a large untapped energy source offering a great selective advantage to, and rapid evolution of organisms that could utilize it.

The burden of hTERT-positive cells probably reflects the degree of expansion of clonogenic tumour cell population, which has a great selective advantage and proliferation capacity provided by telomerase activity.

These data reinforce the conclusions from various studies that animal genomes can support functional genes of bacterial origin (Starcevic et al. 2008; Danchin et al. 2010; Altincicek et al. 2012; Ahn et al. 2014) and, furthermore, suggest that genes in EAA synthesis are of great selective advantage to hosts of EAA-producing bacteria subject to genomic decay.

Darwin (1872) found a way out of this difficulty by assuming a very simple prototypic eye consisting of just two cells, a photoreceptor cell ("nerve") and a pigment cell, shielding the light from one side, thus allowing the animal to detect the direction of the incoming light which confers a great selective advantage.

The variance in the proportion of mutant virus (Fig. 4, pale regions) increases with each additional mutation required because of the increased number of combinatorial options and the greater selective advantage of mutant viruses as compared with wild-type viruses in the hill-climb scenario.

Alternatively, LOH events may involve additional genes (e.g., p14ARF and p15), leading to a greater selective advantage over clones containing mutations.

In addition, empirical studies also indicated that heterozygous genotypes have a greater selective advantage than homozygous genotypes in plant populations, particularly for inbreeding species [50] [53].

Some animals may gain the greatest selective advantage by reducing metabolic energy costs by reducing muscular contribution whereas others gain the greatest advantage by avoiding detection while avoiding predators or stalking prey.

Clonal expansion of populations with greater selective advantage leads to dominant and widespread clones; however, no single mutation is fixed since competing wild-type clones are also identifiable.

Recessive alleles differ in that multiple mating has the greatest relative selective advantage at intermediate frequencies of A. This is again likely due to helping rarely expressed at low frequencies of recessive A alleles.