Sentence examples for may have selectively from inspiring English sources

Viruses are subject to internal and external forces, and as evolving entities they may have selectively adapted their mechanical behavior to resist, or even use, those forces.

That being said, there may be many varieties of troll, and Sauron may have selectively bred them to be immune to sunlight, but Sauron also used smoke and darkness to aid his orcs and trolls.

In this way, intronless genes may have selectively acquired sequence features that resist mRNA splicing [67], [68], [69].

A further possible limitation is that our results are not generalizable because our trial may have selectively attracted IBS patients who were attracted by an advertisement for "a novel mind-body" intervention.

First, the curcumin may have selectively destroyed the CSCs.

Watanabe et al. may have selectively activated this rapid clathrin-independent membrane retrieval process.

The pattern suggests that while this locus has contributed to the selection for low growth in the LWS line it may have been selectively neutral in HWS line.

Based on the current distribution of fossil evidence, it appears that feathers were an ancestral dinosaurian trait, though one that may have been selectively lost in some species.

Commercial trap fishing may have acted selectively to reduce fish density and biomass in the bank's fore reef areas.

The variants altering NAT2 activity may have been selectively neutral (or even slightly deleterious) and present at appreciable frequencies in human populations before becoming positively selected under new environmental conditions.

Thus, it is unclear why changes at these sites may have been selectively favored.