Sentence examples for importance of drift from inspiring English sources
(1) What has been the relative importance of drift and selection in shaping the distribution of quantitative genetic variation?
Given the importance of drift, population sub-division would be expected to facilitate the spread of CI.
The possibility of such selection is another reason why I think that although in the laboratory these mutations are by definition neutral, we must first study the fitness function of these proteins before investigating the importance of drift.
However, we propose that the well characterized group of insect endosymbionts provides a good model system for investigating the relative importance of drift and purifying selection in the process of genome shrinkage.
A closer examination underscores the importance of downward drift as compared with upward drift.
These results are consistent with a departure from migration-drift equilibrium and a greater importance of genetic drift over migration in structuring this species at smaller spatial scales [ 8].
However, recently several interesting studies had shown the importance of neutral drift on the evolution of enzymes (Gupta and Tawfik 2008; Smith et al. 2011).
The identification of these γ-2 viruses demonstrates the need for robust surveillance to capture the full diversity IAVs in swine in the USA and the importance of antigenic drift in the diversification and emergence of new antigenic variants in swine, which complicates vaccine design.
The gene-centered view of evolution rose to prominence in the 1960s, followed by the neutral theory of molecular evolution, sparking debates over adaptationism, the units of selection, and the relative importance of genetic drift versus natural selection.
The molecular-clock hypothesis and the neutral theory were particularly controversial, spawning the neutralist-selectionist debate over the relative importance of mutation, drift and selection, which continued into the 1980s without a clear resolution.
To investigate the importance of genetic drift, the population size in the model was increased.
