Sentence examples for major evolutionary shifts from inspiring English sources

The resultant branch separation also suggests that there have been negligible structure/function modifications in the F3′H during the major evolutionary shifts from mosses to angiosperms.

The long-term evolution experiments using E. coli, begun by Richard Lenski in 1988, have allowed direct observation of major evolutionary shifts in the laboratory.

Using several independent methods, we addressed the question: Was the first major evolutionary shift from benthic to pelagic habitats in eastern North America followed by a period of accelerated lineage diversification in OPM cyprinids?

Major evolutionary dietary shifts seem to be enabled by an underlying change in biotransformation enzymes [ 9, 10].

The floral transition from moderate to extremely strong zygomorphy may reflect a pollinator or pollinator-behavior shift likely towards more specialized pollination, which is the major evolutionary trend of the floral zygomorphy in many clades of angiosperms [ 23, 26, 27].

This distal-proximal microspore polarity transition in development contrasts with the evolutionary shift from a proximal to a distal aperture that has been long regarded as one of the major evolutionary innovations in seed plants [ 52].

These were rapid changes, not gradual evolutionary shifts.

Changes included major shifts in floral composition characterized in Africa by shrinking of forests and emergence of C4 grasses and more open landscapes followed by large-scale evolutionary shifts in faunal communities.

WGD is a major evolutionary force in angiosperm genomes.

The brain is a complex and crucial organ that represents humans' major evolutionary advantage over other animals, Spiegel tells me.

Phylogenetic analyses revealed two major evolutionary clades.