Sentence examples for lost a functional from inspiring English sources

A few nocturnal primates also lost a functional S-opsin gene (e.g. [9], [10]).

Man and chimpanzees have lost a functional GLY1 gene.

C. elegans males are also less efficient at mating than their gonochoristic counterparts [ 35], and many wild strains (31%) have lost a functional version of a gene responsible for the ability to produce a copulatory plug after mating [ 12, 53].

This complicates genetic analyses but is a logical consequence of losing a functional unit originally acquired under pressure during evolution.

But relatively few ectopic MSCs can lead to excellent therapeutic effects on injured host tissues that have a lost a large number of functional cells.

They also have concerns about patients' unrealistic expectations about surgery such as returning to the functional performance lost a long time ago: "There are the objectively unsatisfied patients: when there is a problem with the prosthesis, when it is loosening or when there is an infection, but that scarcely happens.

This may indicate that PrP_Dpl and CD_Dpl have lost all functional characteristics of PrP-like proteins.

Furthermore these results suggest that evolutionary races can be won or lost by being a functional specialist (foraging from a consistent, single food source) or a functional generalist (foraging from a variable or diverse range of food sources).

These WSSV-like sequences probably are the proviral remnants of ancestral germ-line infections by active WSSVs, degenerating to an extent that they lost their functional potential as a virus.

In many modern frame systems the vault has lost its functional significance and become a thin skin laid over a series of arches.

In summary, it appears that the two truly toothless animals sequenced to date have independently lost their functional DPP suggesting that DPP (but not necessarily DSP) may perform a critical function only in dentin.