In an attempt to better understand the evolutionary forces promoting and maintaining alternative splicing, we created a database of human genes with and without splicing variants, and documented the characteristics, functional properties and expression profiles of these two types of genes.
Fluctuating selection on body size has also been hypothesized as a factor favoring threshold variation, and thus ultimately maintaining alternative male life cycles, in Atlantic salmon (Aubin-Horth et al. 2005).
It's a classy, confident effort that maintains an alternative heart without compromising its mainstream aspirations.
While most sleek new Indian galleries tend to focus on lucrative painting or sculpture exhibitions rather than less-sellable experimental art, installations or public art, Khoj maintains an alternative, artist-led ethos.
Most notably, they decided to maintain the alternative minimum tax on corporations and to trim the effects of the alternative minimum tax for high-earning individuals.
The president Rafael Correa and other government representatives had consistently maintained that alternative plans to exploit the oil were merely a backup option in case insufficient compensation was raised.
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In time, we'll know whether they choose to maintain their alternative solutions, or drop them in favor of joining a larger team.
Over the next few months Washington will almost certainly pass a massive tax bill to maintain the alternative minimum tax at roughly current levels.
Some later writers have argued that Einstein's choice of a convention is, in fact, the only possible choice within the framework of special relativistic physics, while others have maintained that alternative choices, although perhaps less convenient, are indeed possible.
