Sentence examples for may represent horizontally from inspiring English sources

We first identified in the S. meliloti annotated database [ 28] chromosomal IgRs containing transcriptional terminators unlikely to be associated with flanking ORFs as well as regions of sequence conservation in the vicinity of annotated tRNA genes, which may represent horizontally transferred genetic elements [ 29, 30].

In this study, we focused attention on regions >1 kb, as these were likely to encode an intact gene product, and probably represent horizontally acquired genetic material.

The presence of horizontally transferred Helitrons in insect viruses, in particular, suggests that this may represent a potential mechanism of transfer in some taxa.

Genome plasticity (and the factors favoring this plasticity) may represent an appreciable evolutionary advantage for Wolbachia, perhaps in relation with its ability to horizontally transfer between various arthropod host species (Cordaux et al. 2001) and with the fact that most of these strains are involved in an evolutionary arms race with their hosts (Cordaux et al. 2011).

The regulatory systems that control the latter category of genes may represent key mechanisms that serve to shape bacterial evolution by affecting the expression characteristics of horizontally-transferred DNA.

Equivalently, we may represent the MLR as a single linear transformation T where T = (A b), the matrix obtained horizontally concatenating A and b.

And they may represent a relative bargain.

– while others may represent longer-term interests.

They may represent newly discovered genotypes.

These may represent gills.

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