Sentence examples for may favor evolution from inspiring English sources

Thus, natural selection may favor evolution of highly expressed longer proteins into shorter proteins in order to minimize fitness costs (Akashi 2003); accordingly, such a phenomenon might partially contribute toward the elevated optimal codon usage observed within short genes as compared with longer genes in Neurospora.

During range expansions selection may favor the evolution of higher dispersal, and symbiotic interactions may be affected.

Greenwood [3] predicted that monogamy would correlate with FBD because a sexual asymmetry in the costs of resource competition may favor the evolution of these two behavioral patterns.

These studies may indicate that an alteration in the equilibrium between proto-oncogene and tumor suppressor expression in PSC may favor the evolution of prostate tumors and may also predict their aggressiveness.

Weak trade-offs may favor the evolution of a generalist population when migration is high or specialists when migration is low enough for differentiation to occur.

Diminished APOBEC activity and sublethal levels of hypermutation may favor virus evolution, by generating viable variants carrying immune escape or drug resistance mutations.

As defense strategies against parasites are costly, temporal and spatial variation in parasite presence may favor the evolution of inducible defenses, only expressed after parasite contact (Harvell 1990).

It takes less energy to produce wingless queens, and selection may favor the evolution of wingless queens in particular ecological conditions where aerial dispersal is risky [ 29, 46, 47].

Depending on the extent of the loss or gain, and the dosage sensitivity of genes on the incipient sex chromosomes, natural selection may favor the evolution of compensating mechanisms to balance expression between the sexes and between the sex chromosomes and autosomes.

Paulsson [16] suggested that intra-host selection should favor evolution of cis acting activators while inter-host selection favors evolution of retaliation by trans acting inhibitors of replication.

"Evolution may favor individuals that can persuade their partner to make a greater investment," thereby saving their own resources for future reproduction should their current mate die, or perhaps to invest in a sneaky extra-pair relationship of the moment.