Sentence examples for may impose selection from inspiring English sources

That is, shifts in the benefits versus costs of high metabolic rates (and thus, heart rates) between the egg stage and the free-living juvenile may impose selection for adjustment of cardiovascular function.

However it is possible that treatment may impose selection pressures on isolates that could affect the observed rate of fixation, and this should be considered.

Such disruptions of existing host parasite systems may impose selection both on the novel hosts (to better recognize and destroy the parasite) and on the parasite (to evade the novel host's immune responses).

Across this geographic gradient there are also substantial biotic and abiotic gradients that may impose selection pressures on reef fishes of the GBR that could be important in determining their geographic range limits.

Antagonistic host-parasite coevolution, the reciprocal evolution of host defence and parasite counter-defence, can drive patterns of biodiversity [ 1- 5], host and parasite population dynamics [ 6], the evolution of parasite virulence [ 7, 8], and may impose selection for the maintenance of sexual reproduction [ 9].

Humans may also impose selection in the form of selective predation, for example by capturing large fish and releasing small ones that is, imposing natural selection for smaller size at maturity (e.g., Jørgensen et al. 2007).

These results demonstrate that belowground biota may indeed impose selection on the aboveground insect herbivores mediated by the host plant.

However, factors other than environmental temperature (e.g. sexual selection, predation) may also impose selection on body size [ 2, 10- 16].

Mitochondrial function and the management of reactive oxygen species are important for favourable exercise responses and therefore MTFR1 may impose strong selection pressure in Thoroughbred by protection of mitochondria-rich tissue against oxidative stress.

This may impose indirect selection for increased recombination.

It has been suggested that such residues may impose a selection pressure on the calf's intestinal microbiota if waste milk is ingested by the calf.