The phrase 'mask the contribution' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to indicate that someone's contribution to something has been hidden or disguised. For example, "The government's decision to cut taxes for large corporations seemed to mask the contribution of small businesses in the local economy."
Abundant anemophilous trees are likely to mask the contribution of Poaceae pollen, whereas floras that are primarily entomophilous are likely to produce a pollen spectrum containing an over-representation of Poaceae.
For example, redundant pathways may mask the contribution of some genes to antibiotic tolerance.
Firstly, we have used a mixed population of lymph node cells, which could mask the contribution of individual cell type specific alternative spicing.
Therefore, the outstanding ability of CD8+ DCs in cross-presentation may mask the contribution of cutaneous Langerin+ DC subsets to CD8+ T-cell immunity.
However, when comparing across multiple mice, only 9.53% ± 1.1% of EE from activity appeared to be independent of other components involved in the thermogenic response, suggesting other metabolic processes may mask the contribution of activity to EE.
In our model, planned cyclophosphamide use also correlated with the use of other anti-malignant agents, which could potentially mask the contribution of these other agents to the neutropenic potential of the chemotherapy regimen.
Since the core and external fields mask the contributions of the lithosphere, current practice is to map the lithospheric field in spherical harmonics (SH) either by a joint inversion with other source magnetic fields or only after the measurements are corrected for the core and external fields.
Striatal α4β2 nAChRs were also downregulated but the sham surgery by itself produced a partial effect, masking the contribution of the OBX lesion.
It is possible that treatment with antibiotics in 2003 04 may have masked the contribution of bacterial pathogens to pathology, or that the post mortem bacteriological findings have been underestimated, although at least half of the fatal cases died without any therapeutics.
A caveat of these studies is that the P. aeruginosa strain used bears an inactivating mutation in retS, which constitutively activates the Gac/Rsm pathway, potentially masking the contribution of this major regulatory mechanism to the defense mounted by P. aeruginosa against the antagonistic pathways of competing bacteria.
Although departures from linearity were observed only for SBP (see Supplemental Material, Figure S2), a threshold might be possible because indoor noise sources at nighttime could well reach 30 dB(A), thus partly or totally masking the contribution of traffic noise levels < 30 dB(A) indoors.
