Recombination within the population is thought to be advantageous to the lineage as it may reduce the impact of clonal interference and accelerate microbial adaptation (Vos 2009).
A greater pore size is thought to be advantageous as it allows the admittance of immune cells and greater collagen ingrowth into the construct [ 13].
This mechanism is thought to be advantageous in that it appears to reduce long-term availability of sodium channels for activation without affecting physiological activity.
1 It is indicated when interrupting the pregnancy is thought to be advantageous for the mother or baby and is often carried out for postdate pregnancies (>41 weeks' gestation), where it has been shown to decrease perinatal mortality.
Similar variation has been observed in many eukaryotic systems undergoing chemotaxis [ 19, 21, 51, 52], and it is thought to be advantageous for cells that are seeking nutrients or other targets but have not yet detected them [ 52].
The non-classical approach is thought to be advantageous over the classical, as the former provides continuous replacement of water, which occupies the intra-fibrillar compartments, by apatite crystals.
While the gain of disorder is thought to be advantageous or neutral in many cases, there must be selective pressures that put restrictions to this apparently random process, as is the case of the chloroplast RUBISCO small subunit protein, a nuclear-encoded protein with a plastid origin, which was found to be ordered in most of the plant proteomes investigated (see Figure 2).
RDS is based on a long-chain referral recruitment strategy, which is thought to be advantageous in reaching the most hidden segments of already-hidden populations 16 and has been adopted by public health researchers worldwide for sampling injecting drug users (IDUs), MSM and commercial sex workers successfully in China 17 18 and other areas of the world.
Their ability to induce regulatory responses is thought to be advantageous for both the parasite and the host as it allows the survival of the parasite for extended periods of time within the host while preventing overt pathological reactions that would otherwise be damaging to the host [ 7].
This mechanism of cell death is thought to be physiologically advantageous because apoptotic cells are removed by phagocytosis before they lose their permeability barrier, thus preventing induction of an inflammatory response to the dying cells.
