Sentence examples for knowledge of the ancestral from inspiring English sources

Retrotransposons have the advantage of a clear knowledge of the ancestral state, which is absence (Ray et al. 2006).

Resolving recombination rate differences into changes that occurred in each species in the course of their divergence requires knowledge of the ancestral recombination rate.

To assess if neo-functionalization and sub-functionalization have occurred, previous knowledge of the ancestral gene's function is required, which is usually unavailable.

However, comparisons across the unicellular and multicellular domains of life are complicated by the lack of knowledge of the ancestral SET-domain genes.

In particular, research can be hampered by an incomplete knowledge of the ancestral environment and the initial phenotypic responses of ancestral populations.

The ancestry information provided by the 24 autosomal ASMs was first tested by performing a STRUCTURE analysis with the HGDP-CEPH samples assuming no prior knowledge of the ancestral groups.

Two additional estimators, ΘF by Fu and Li [1993] and ΘH by Fay and Wu [2000], require the knowledge of the derived and the ancestral state at each of the segregating sites, here obtained by genotyping chimpanzee and other ape DNAs (see Materials and Methods).

The distinction between the two neo-functionalization models, neo-f and iad, is challenging because it requires a knowledge of the promiscuous functions fulfilled by the ancestral gene – before duplication.

Knowledge of what ancestral conditions resulted in current states helps us better understand the evolutionary implications of demographic events – even as they may be unfolding.

To do so would require knowledge of the genome of the yeast ancestral to both S. cerevisiae and K. waltii.

As with human GWA studies, we assumed no previous knowledge of ancestral haplotypes in the founder population, which precludes inference-based linkage analysis methods.