Sentence examples for obscure function from inspiring English sources

The Hawaii installation is designed to succeed at a crucial but obscure function: frequency regulation.

"With veins like that, Kid, I'd have myself a time!" He laughed, black insect laughter that seemed to serve some obscure function or orientation like bat's squeak.

As every pager-bearing backbencher knows, media relations are not an obscure function carried out on some distant margin of a Labour minister's empire.

There are way, way easier ways to do this, but they do cost money up front and you don't get that satisfaction of creating your own expensive and unwieldy franken-device that performs an obscure function.

This result reinforces the idea that rather than performing some obscure function, the role of auxilin in Notch signaling cells is to regulate clathrin dynamics.

The presence of supranumerary ORFs in mitochondrial genomes has been reported elsewhere (f.i., [ 11, 22, 112, 113]; and references therein) and they mostly are of obscure function, but they generally share either a DNA-binding motif or a transmembrane region.

Finally, our findings provide the first functional genomic information for hundreds of genes with obscure functions that can be exploited for hypothesis testing by traditional functional assays to improve our understanding of the complex developmental processes present in grape berries and to ultimately utilize this information to improve quality traits of wine grapes.

This data would be helpful in exploring the so far obscure functions of CBS domain and CBS domain-containing proteins in plant stress responses.

It was reported that unknown genes such as proteins with obscure functions (POF) cover more than 20% of each new genome sequenced with many being species specific [ 73].

Approximately two-thirds (64%) of these Unigenes could be assigned a functional annotation with the remaining one-third having obscure or unknown functions.

However, due to the functional redundancy of members of many gene families, the subtleties of the phenotypes of single-gene mutants, and possible early phenotypes that obscure anther function, forward genetics has limitations in uncovering anther gene functions [ 29].