Sentence examples for microorganisms under selective from inspiring English sources

It is also possible to improve the performance by culturing microorganisms under selective pressure for enhanced power production [30, 72].

Since this value exceeds 1.0, it indicates that SMP homologues are maintained under selective pressure within the examined microorganisms.

Taken together, the evidence of high amino acid diversity, positive selection and structural correspondence to the horseshoe crab tachylectin-2 suggests that this protein is 1) part of Oculina's innate immunity repertoire, and 2) evolving adaptively, possibly under selective pressure from coral-associated microorganisms.

Consequently, microorganisms such as the surface microorganisms that grow after the salting of cheeses, are, at least transiently, under selective pressure for salt-tolerance.

We have previously screened for biosurfactant-producing microorganisms using the mT-RFLP methodology to monitor the enrichment under selective growth conditions.

Although variations in chromosome copy number are often detrimental to organisms [ 15], studies in several microorganisms also indicate that DNA copy-number alterations can be beneficial, increasing survival under selective pressure [ 16- 18].

Several genes involved in determining skin color have been under selective pressure in Europeans and East Asians.

Together, these indicate that EV-A71 has been evolving for the past decade mostly under selective constraint.

In natural environments, the ability to use chitin as a nitrogen source may confer on cellulolytic microorganisms, a selective advantage over other cellulolytic microbes.

Transduced cell populations were than cultivated under selective pressure.

ICU: intensive care unit; IPI: intrinsic pathogenicity index; PPM: potentially pathogenic microorganisms; SDD: selective decontamination of the digestive tract; SOD: selective oropharyngeal decontamination; VAP: ventilator-associated pneumonia.