If this is a more general mechanism, anterior horn size might be more closely correlated with adjacent structure volumes than with more distant cortical volumes.
The oil-bearing properties of the tight reservoirs which are in the upper and lower members of the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimsar Sag are more closely related to the maturity of adjacent source rocks than reservoir porosity.
Territories of this species are much smaller (0.4 ha on average) and more closely spaced (on average, 125 m separates adjacent territories [30]).
These adjacent crypts may be more closely related by recent fission, but another possibility is they are also distantly related and happen to have similar methylation patterns by chance.
Phylogenetic analysis shows that wallaby class I genes on different chromosomes may be more closely related to one another than to an adjacent class I (eg Maeu-UB-6q and Maeu-UF-4p).
This is consistent with higher gene conversion rates between more closely linked ISX elements generating correlated population frequencies among adjacent elements (Sasaki et al., 2010).
This study also found that more closely related species tended to be allo- or parapatric (adjacent), but sympatry is common among more distantly related species that carry distinct mtDNA lineages (see approximate species distributions in Additional file 1: Figure S1a-d).
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Anolis lizards in the Greater Antilles are more closely related to other species within the same island than to species of adjacent islands.
Furthermore, PKC-δ maps to a chromosomal area closely adjacent to 3p21, a region that has recently been found to be more frequently affected by loss of heterozygosity in asbestos-exposed than in non-exposed lung cancer patients [ 8, 26].
Analyzing sequenced fragments with lengths 20 70 bp, which more closely represent the footprint of PolII (Samkurashvili and Luse, 1996), avoids the complication of mapping fragments consisting of PolII crosslinked to adjacent nucleosomes.
