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Potentially this shift may reflect selection for fewer, larger young with greater parental investment.

If this is the case, then the regression results may reflect selection bias.

Our finding of a beneficial treatment effect of DrotAA in the current study differs from PROWESS SHOCK [6] and from the APROCCHS trial [7] (in which there was no treatment effect) and may reflect selection bias.

For example, males with good-genes for immunity may also be most able to provide food or defend a large, high quality territory; thus selection for good resources/behaviour may reflect selection for good-genes.

The extreme modularity of MaSp1 (Figure 1) may reflect selection on the MaSp1 fibroin for perfect repeats, perhaps important for rapid and consistent spinning of high quality silk fibers.

We proposed that the steeper distance decay in floristic similarity in the Alps than in the Scandes may reflect selection for high dispersal ability [20] towards northern Europe and greater connectivity between communities [67] in the Scandes than in the Alps.

Finally, the low smoking rate may also reflect selection bias such that lighter smokers may have been more willing to participate in a smoking cessation intervention.

Graduates who benefited from the programme appear less likely to be unemployed and considerably more likely to have found a job in the private sector - but this may partly reflect selection into the programme, which is not random.

In addition, the differences may also reflect selection of other calibration points, and the differences in taxon sampling.

The widespread suppression of UpA dinucleotides in mRNA sequences may therefore reflect selection for increased stability in the cytoplasm.

The findings may also reflect selection bias because non-responders differed from participants on several predictors of CAM use [ 10].