Sentence examples for greatest selection pressure from inspiring English sources
Hofacre agrees, saying, "Usage in humans by medical doctors may be the greatest selection pressure for maintaining these resistance genes in humans".
Although most fluoroquinolone use is in the community, the most intensive use and therefore the greatest selection pressure relative to numbers and concentration of patients is in hospitals.
Korean beef producers have selected Hanwoo for meat yield and quality (Chung and Kim 2005); a completely different breeding history against Holstein cattle will reveal the greatest selection pressure for the overall breeding goal in dairy cattle (supplementary fig. S5, Supplementary Material online).
Loci experiencing the greatest selection pressures can be found in the extreme tail-ends of empirical distributions [26].
"When you have greater selection pressure for protection, you get greater protection".
In Simpson's own words: "(1) an inadaptive phase, in which the group in question loses the equilibrium of its ancestors or collaterals, (2) a preadaptive phase, in which there is great selection pressure and the group moves toward a new equilibrium, and (3) an adaptive phase, in which the new equilibrium is reached" (Simpson 1944, p. 207).
Thus, whether the superior rate of improvement reported by the Swedish study is due to breed, to recording scale or to greater selection pressure is unclear.
Thus, this might exert greater selection pressure for the resistant strains thereby making them resistant to antimicrobials.
In some cases, gene number/structure changes may subject to greater selection pressure, while in other cases changes may not be affected or even favored by natural selection.
If LAP is abundant in prey tissues, there may not be great selection pressure governing its level of expression in venoms.
(If it were due to genetic changes in the parasite population, increased treatment frequency could potentially impose a greater selection pressure and lead to decreased ivermectin efficacy).
