Sentence examples for major evolutionary mechanisms from inspiring English sources

It starts with two activities about basic concepts - intra-specific diversity and heredity - and is followed by two activities about major evolutionary mechanisms - natural selection and genetic drift.

The major evolutionary mechanisms that have resulted in the Neotropical Region's extremely large and diverse fauna are not well understood.

Alternative splicing is emerging as one of the major evolutionary mechanisms for protein diversification and proteome expansion.

Therefore, our focus is mostly on the major evolutionary mechanisms leading to the observed rise and fall in the number of diverse families of TEs.

Alternative splicing has been shown to be one of the major evolutionary mechanisms for protein diversification and proteome expansion, since a considerable fraction of alternative splicing events appears to be species- or lineage-specific.

To gain deeper insights into the major evolutionary mechanisms that act on mycobacterial evolution, we analyzed the distribution of gene gains and losses within a phylogenetic context using the statistical framework provided by BadiRate (Librado et al. 2012).

The narrow distance and high similarity of each copy indicated that the gene duplication is the major evolutionary mechanism of PRAMEYs after transposition.

We found in the rlrA islet a complex pattern of regions under positive selection, where recombination has played only a minor role, and regions where recombination appears to have been the major evolutionary mechanism.

The birth-and-death model of gene duplication, instead of concerted evolution, has been suggested to be the major evolutionary mechanism accounting for the expansion of autosomal PRAME and the resemblance between each copy [13].

Gene duplication is a major evolutionary mechanism for generating novel genes, which helps organisms adapt to different environments.

Gene duplication is a major evolutionary mechanism in genomes that helped plants adapt to various environmental stresses [ 44].