Sentence examples for immediate ancestral from inspiring English sources

The study introduced the concept of "total immediate ancestral longevity," or TIAL the sum of the ages at death of the two parents and the four grandparents of a given person as a measure of longevity.

The chloroplast genome of O. rufipogon [Genbank: NC_017835], which is thought to be the immediate ancestral progenitor of cultivated rice, was chosen as the reference.

Huang et al. ([2012a]) also generated genome sequences from 446 geographically diverse accessions of the wild rice species O. rufipogon, the immediate ancestral progenitor of cultivated rice, and from 1,083 cultivated indica and japonica varieties, to construct a comprehensive map of rice genome variation.

The speciation process so witnessed would, however, not really have occurred in allopatry, but as a succession of sympatric steps which can only occur under the selective pressure of the immediate ancestral stock.

The number of well-supported vicariance and dispersal events were only counted when the relative probability of the best inference is two times larger than the following reconstructed distribution, in both immediate ancestral and daughter nodes.

In other words, saeptation will be the consequence of a mutation that will promote increased inbreeding within a group inheriting that mutation, and thus in a reduction of the gene flow between this new group and its immediate ancestral stock.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00603.012 Modules conserve their gene members relative to those of their immediately ancestral internal vertex in the tree ('immediate ancestor'), inversely to phylogenetic distance.

Still other characters -- a BBC correspondent in Russia (Eric Mallett), a Greek taxi driver (Kostas Philippoglou), a hotel maid in Berlin (Catherine Schaub Abkarian) -- show up to offer accounts of their immediate and ancestral pasts.

If a gene changes it's module membership compared to its immediate ancestor, the ancestral module is considered to have contracted, while simultaneously the new module of the gene is considered to have expanded.

However, Gordon et al. [ 28] have determined that 32 translocation events have occurred during the evolution of the Saccharomyces 'sensu stricto' from the common, immediate pre-WGD, ancestral yeast, and 2 of these have involved the mating-type chromosome.

In this story, I needed a troubled and haunted man, not just by his own immediate past, but by his ancestral one, about which to some extent, he'd been in denial.