Sentence examples for major evolutionary forces from inspiring English sources
Coevolution, defined as reciprocal evolutionary change between interacting species, is thought to be one of the major evolutionary forces that generates new species (Thompson 1994).
It has been hypothesized that the host-pathogen interaction has been one of the major evolutionary forces shaping the apoptotic machinery and therefore the caspase repertoire [ 17, 18].
Mutation and recombination are the major evolutionary forces leading to emergence of genetically diverse EV71 variants that have accounted for the recurrent HFMD outbreaks.
These data, plus reanalysis of Vtg gene sequences from other organisms suggest that duplication, concerted evolution and purifying selection may be major evolutionary forces driving Vtg gene evolution across highly divergent taxa.
These findings are consistent with the observation of Salomonsen et al. that recombination and/or deletion events are likely major evolutionary forces that shaped this portion of MHC- B [ 82].
This study uses comparative genomic analyses of 12 complete published C. trachomatis genomes to assess the contribution of recombination and selection in this pathogen and to understand the major evolutionary forces acting on the genome of this bacterium.
As we note in the paper, sexual selection is responsible for countless features and behaviours in a huge and diverse number of species that are alive today, and there's no reason to think it didn't have as much effect in the past – it's a major evolutionary force and deliberately sidestepping it is a mistake.
WGD is a major evolutionary force in angiosperm genomes.
Overall negative selection appears to be the major evolutionary force affecting nucleotide diversity and evolution rates of Seg-3.
The influence of population size on shaping gene structures has been proposed as a major evolutionary force [16], [100], [101].
This process has been proposed to be a major evolutionary force, shaping many life history traits of species, and to govern global patterns of biodiversity at different scales.
