Sentence examples for important selective advantage from inspiring English sources
"This probably constituted an important selective advantage for dogs feeding on human leftovers within a farming context.
The conservation and expression of some of these endogenous sequences, and a potential correlation between their presence and a species' resistance to the diseases caused by the related viruses, suggest that they may afford an important selective advantage in these vertebrate populations".
This represents an important selective advantage in MCF-7 in leading to aggressive and metastatic forms of the disease [ 40].
In addition, protection from predators is considered to give important selective advantage to group membership of individuals (Krebs and Davies, 1997; Wertheim et al., 2005).
This leads us to propose that the capacity to generate clonal heterogeneity could represents an important selective advantage in some cancers and lead to aggressive and metastatic forms of the disease.
Our in vivo experiments showed that, for the Gis1 transcription factor at least, proteasome-mediated control is crucial for a rapid return to growth after nutrient starvation, which may give yeast cells an important selective advantage over their competitors.
This means that imperfect but functional novelties can provide important selective advantages before micro-evolutionary processes have had an opportunity to fine-tune them.
This adaptation may contribute to HBV persistence and offer the virus a significant selective advantage over other pathogens that utilize cellular components that are less important to host survival.
Carcinogenesis in tubular epithelial cells, therefore, might be associated with an inability to upregulate Smac/DIABLO expression, thereby generating an important selective growth advantage.
Therefore the imbalances between anti- and pro-apoptotic factors may result in an increased effect of XIAP, thereby generating an important selective survival advantage of HCC cells.
Analysis of the mutations revealed that specific combinations of mutations were particularly important in conferring selective advantage.
