Sentence examples for of biotic origin from inspiring English sources

(For additional information about diseases of biotic origin, see infection).

Therapeutic agents, paradoxically, also have become important factors in predisposing to disease of biotic origin and indeed in altering the incidence patterns of infectious disease.

We think that the large, continuous area of suitable substrate might play an important role for dirivultids to flourish at midocean ridges, but prevents them from colonizing relatively small patches of hard substrate of biotic origin (e.g. tubes, shells, bones, wood), which are surrounded by soft deep-sea sediments.

Laminated carbonaceous concentrations at the surfaces of sedimentary bedding planes could be explained as sedimented detrital carbon (of abiotic or biotic origin, including floating microbial colonies, cf. Thompson et al., 1990), films of purely abiotic carbon, or microbial biofilms.

Autophagy may ensure the homeostatic regulation of miRNA-mediated RNA silencing by preventing blatant perturbations that could be induced by various stresses of abiotic or biotic origin.

Despite the difficulty in detecting organics in situ on Mars, small quantities of methane (of abiotic and, possibly, biotic origin) have been detected by the SAM instrument on Curiosity (Webster et al., 2015), and there is evidence for organic carbon in martian meteorites (McKay et al., 1996; Grady et al., 2004; Steele et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2014).

This work has to a large part been motivated by biological research highlighting the potential importance of hybridization in the origin of biotic diversity, biological invasion and rapid adaptation [ 13- 27].

While genome-dosage effects on transcript levels have been observed between diploid and tetraploid A. thaliana, and tetraploid lines observed to have increased salinity tolerance, to our knowledge, this is the first time that a parent-of-origin-specific genome-dosage effect on transcript levels of biotic and abiotic stress-response genes has been demonstrated.

Consumption of biotic natural resources was marginal.

Such substrate harbors plenty of biotic and abiotic foods.

Such tests allow measurement of biotic and abiotic degradation processes.