Sentence examples for important selective pressure from inspiring English sources
In fact, the exhaustion of the prebiotic supply of amino acids and other compounds that were likely present on the primordial Earth imposed an important selective pressure, favoring those primordial heterotrophic cells that became able to synthesize those molecules.
This suggests that minimizing the time invested in gene transcription is an important selective pressure against spurious binding.
The complexity of the modern cellular metabolism might have been an important selective pressure in this evolutionary process.
We suggest that the complexity of the modern cellular metabolism might have been an important selective pressure in this evolutionary process.
Average prey size (ie. the "typical" prey taken by a given raptor species) may represent an important selective pressure driving the morphological evolution of raptor feet.
The transition to different food sources during the agricultural revolution, which started around 11,000 years ago, was an important selective pressure and the changes in food intake helped shape the genome of modern humans [10].
Alternatively, more persistent or spatially homogeneous nutrient inputs into ecosystems may result in changes to historically important selective pressures through, for example, relaxed selection on traits linked to previously limiting resources (Snell-Rood et al. 2010; Table 1: H5).
Environmental constraints can also represent important selective pressures.
Parasites exert important selective pressures on host life history traits.
Examination of this question can reveal evolutionarily important selective pressures exerted by the environment(s) in which the microbe lives.
Other important selective pressures seem to be exerted by VapPres (vapour pressure) and SunpVII (% of sunlight hours in July) (Table 3, Figures 4 and 5).
