Sentence examples for population standing from inspiring English sources

With the area's population standing at a little more than 1 million people, the occupation means there is one soldier for every six civilians.

If permanent membership of the council is to be enlarged, as Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary-general, says he would like it to be, Japan (along with India and Brazil) is a natural candidate by dint of population, standing and economic power.

This situation could for instance explain the presence of admixed individuals into the three surveyed species, in SP12 a population standing at 800 m from cultivations.

Selection acting on novel adaptive mutations (hard sweeps) is expected to result in a stronger signal around the selected site than when it acts on genetic variation already present in the population (standing variation), commonly known as a soft sweep (Pritchard et al. 2010; Cutter and Payseur 2013).

Mounting evidence on seed dispersal and plant migration rates has revealed that plant migration capability falls short, in various orders of magnitude, of that needed to track ecological optima in the near future [ 2], thus highlighting the importance of within-population standing genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and adaptive evolution for plant population survival.

Pollitt and colleagues demonstrate that, like in many bacterial populations, standing genetic diversity leads to rapid drug resistance in natural population of murine Plasmodium.

As previously described [ 70], a fully penetrant and genome-integrated GFP marker with a myo-3 promoter was introgressed in the A6140 population to obtain a tester population with standing genetic diversity (A6140GFP).

(In populations with standing genetic diversity population sizes are an order of magnitude higher than the effective population sizes of Ne = 10; [ 42]).

All populations reported here were derived from a population with standing genetic diversity previously evolved for 140 generations under our standardised laboratory environment [ 55, 70].

There are many reasons to take issue with this bizarre view, not least the fact that it pretty much disqualifies half of the population from standing.

With England's population now standing at 54.79 million, that means about 7% of them are now on the NHS's referral to treatment (RTT) waiting list for operations such as cataract removal, hernia repair or hip or knee replacement.