Sentence examples for history of selection from inspiring English sources

Such matching might arise for four different reasons: (i) local adaptation due to multi-generational history of selection on genetic polymorphisms, (ii) selective mortality within generations, (iii) individual-level choice of matching habitat patches [ 36], and (iv) developmental plasticity of body colouration to match local conditions [ 14].

This difference probably reflects the distinct origin and history of selection of the two lines with lower dTI, DD (not selected on dTI) and STI (selected for short dTI) which were used to start the two AIL populations in crosses with Line LTI (selected for long dTI).

It may reflect the history of selection in the population of landraces and their geographic origins.

Since it has never been desired before, it has no history of selection and so no content on its first occurrence, on that style of theory.

Neander and Rosenberg (forthcoming) respond that the function of a trait and its function-specific type co-supervene on the history of selection and that there is only a superficial appearance of circularity.

Those who favor teleological theories of content usually favor an etiological theory of functions, according to which an item's function is determined by its history of selection or by past selection of things of that type.

Indica and japonica rice were domesticated independently and their domestication genes usually show different evolutionary histories of selection between cultivated and wild rice populations [ 26, 27].

(My theory could probably be called "Generalized Agentic Selection" without losing much. I prefer, however, Generalized Sexual Selection, because of the recognized history of sexual selection as a theory).

Although the gain-of-function mutations at PCSK9 reflect strong functional constraint and a history of purifying selection, a signature of relaxed selective constraint or positive selection was noted in the C-terminal domain of PCSK9.

In either case, diversity may be maintained by ongoing selection, or neutrally, following a history of balancing selection, at the disease resistance genes in C. rubella.

Conway Zirkle, writing about the history of natural selection in 1941, said that an excerpt from this work was the only relevant passage he had found from an Arabian scholar.