Sentence examples for may reflect evolutionary from inspiring English sources

This may reflect evolutionary divergences between tree and grass species.

Indeed, even what appear to be shared similarities between phyla can be unreliable because they may reflect evolutionary convergence and independent acquisition rather than common ancestry.

In contrast, higher biomass of native forest canopies in drier zones on older substrates may reflect evolutionary adaptation to these environments, as well as a lack of analog tree taxa in the current alien species pool on the islands.

The types of changes outlined above may result from phenotypic plasticity (the ability of a single genotype to express different phenotypes in different environments) or may reflect evolutionary change (selection for different phenotypes over multiple generations).

Average length of protein coding regions in ubiquitously expressed PK genes tends to be shorter than in other groups, which may reflect evolutionary pressure to reduce costs of translation for housekeeping protein kinases.

This may reflect evolutionary divergence.

So, our findings may not reflect evolutionary relationships inside the Plasmodium genus, but raise the question of whether such proteins could be involved in parasite specific host infection.

Because most genes duplicated by WGD are subsequently lost, the subfunctionalization observed in neopolyploids may not reflect evolutionary processes that operate over longer time frames.

(ii) Another recent work [ 9] has claimed that localized network patterns may not necessarily reflect evolutionary selection of functional components as the density of the patterns may be determined by the global structure of the network, which is characterized by its degree distribution and clustering coefficient.

Ortholog pair variations may not directly reflect evolutionary events, but they are correlated.

The taxonomy follows the NCBI taxonomy database [ 32], which may not perfectly reflect evolutionary status, but is well usable for automatic procedures, due to its integration into the public NCBI framework.