Sentence examples for owing to selection from inspiring English sources

In an interesting exception to this pattern, the logic function AND evolved counter to its optimum in some populations owing to selection on the EQU function.

Apart from that, considerable morphological, ecological and physiological variations exist within each varietal subpopulation owing to selection for adaptations to different agro-climatic conditions (Khush 1997).

However, it is of great importance to mention that they differ in quality, with some having significant methodological flaws--mainly owing to selection bias and retrospective study design.

Hence, if the pattern was owing to selection directly favouring co-occurrence, it is more likely to be observable in mouse rather than human, all else being equal.

The population genetics model (Fig. S1) incorporated estimates of the key biological parameters for H. armigera to simulate changes in the frequency of two resistance alleles owing to selection by Cry1Ac/Cry2Ab cotton.

The modest response rate means the prevalence of aggression and alcohol involvement are likely to have been underestimated owing to selection biases, which may differ by gender, and study power is limited.

We cannot separate whether this observation owes to selection in who has coordinated laws or an impact of both laws changing at the same time.

A virtue of the study was that there were few losses, indicating that there was no selection bias owing to selective losses and that the analyses were carried out according to the intention-to-treat principle.

The inability to get different growth rates in H and L lines may be owing to the selection regime which selected for higher growth rates in either of the nutrient concentrations.

However, the fact that the fry still did not have reproductive success equal to that of wild fish suggests that the genetic or environmental effects causing hatchery fish to have low fitness can occur early in the life cycle (e.g., during embryonic development or perhaps owing to relaxed selection on mate choice in their parents).

Figure 4a shows that the error estimates derived from the inner loop (model selection: ave.PE internal ) differ remarkably from the theoretical prediction errors owing to model selection bias and sample size effects.