Sentence examples for impose selection from inspiring English sources

Humans may also impose selection in the form of selective predation, for example by capturing large fish and releasing small ones that is, imposing natural selection for smaller size at maturity (e.g., Jørgensen et al. 2007).

Purse seines scoop up fish from aggregates and are thought to be less size selective (Pope et al. 1975; Ricker 1981) but could impose selection on migration timing and schooling behavior, particularly if the fishery employs specific time or area openings.

These schools could then impose selection criteria such as which families lived closest or religious affiliation.

Interacting species impose selection on each other, continually reshaping each other's traits and life histories.

These additional interactions have the potential to impose selection on hosts and parasites and influence the patterns and processes of their evolution.

Coevolution is commonly defined as reciprocal evolutionary changes brought about by interactions between species, implying that interacting species impose selection on each other.

In the IBD-GS scheme parents were solely selected based on EBV, which is expected to give more even long-term genetic contributions of the selected parents compared to a classical selection scheme imposing selection of genetically inferior parents.

Guardiola had omitted David Silva and Sergio Agüero from his starting lineup but it remained an imposing selection and City's confidence was reflected in the fizz of their passing.

Once on the peninsula, early breeder-farmers imposed selection for the preferred grain quality for consumption.

This change allows bacteria to more readily evolve resistance, which in turn imposes selection for novel infectivity genotypes in the phage, thus spurring on the rate of coevolution.

Widespread use of insecticides to control arthropod pests of agricultural, veterinary, and medical importance imposes selection for resistance to these chemicals.