Sentence examples for might confer selective from inspiring English sources
Noting the unique presence of VENs in ACC and the frontoinsula, Seeley et al. hypothesized that these specialized neurons might confer selective vulnerability due to some as yet unknown but distinctive biological feature.
Intriguingly, the suppression of genome instability in the context of replication stalling amid dysfunctional SMC-5/ 6 suggests that the maintenance of familial BRCA1 carrier mutations might confer selective advantages under certain conditions of genotoxic challenges.
Deletion of such genes might confer a selective advantage during infection or transmission in vaccinated population.
Although it is not clear how much B. parapertussis contributes to the resurgence of whooping cough, the low efficacy of current vaccines against this bacterium might confer a selective advantage to B. parapertussis, relative to B. pertussis.
It has been hypothesised that toxicity or lack thereof might confer a selective advantage to cyanobacteria under certain environmental conditions.
Rrefers to a feature of some cancer cells displaying lineage infidelity/promiscuity/trans-differentiation that might confer a selective advantage to tumour growth.
Roman-Gomez et al (2007) have speculated that HAGE expression might confer a selective advantage over HAGE−cells in blast crisis in leukaemia.
However, through DNA-PK activation, ERα positivity might confer a selective advantage to tumour cells when exposed to radiotherapy or chemotherapeutic agents.
The combination of high mitochondrial densities and the maintenance of duplicated genes involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and aerobic respiration might confer a selective advantage by improving oxygen diffusion and energy supply to aerobic tissues.
Hence, repression of AP-2 function resulted in increased sensitivity towards ionizing radiation and we conclude that expression of AP-2 genes might confer a selective advantage to breast tumor cells towards chemotherapeutic agents and irradiation.
The presence of semi-dwarfs in nature indicates that this trait might confer a selective advantage under specific conditions, in particular in environments characterized by the occurrence of abiotic stresses.
