Sentence examples for predominantly selecting from inspiring English sources

While we found that harvest mortality selected against the largest fish, selection due to nonretention mortality was directional with the opposite effect, predominantly selecting against smaller fish.

The acclimation process with the target antibiotics led to significant shifts in the structure and diversity of the microbial communities, predominantly selecting microorganisms belonging to the phyla Proteobacteria (e.g. Achromobacter, Variovorax and Stenotrophomonas genera) and Bacteroidetes (e.g. Dysgonomonas, Flavobacterium and Chryseobacterium genera).

We have confirmed that these criteria can predominantly select the clear harmonic waves.

This strain was predominantly selected by high-performance bacterial consortia to simultaneously decolorize monoazo dye direct orange 37 and diazo dye reactive blue 160 (Zhang et al. 2010).

As implants are predominantly selected from incremental sizes of a preferred design, it may be necessary for a surgeon to slightly under or oversize the component.

These two approaches predominantly selected different gene-sets relative to observed expression levels in experimental (BAV, TAA) versus control (TAV, TAA) patients.

Of these, 18 miRNAs (Table  2) were predominantly selected based on differential expression.

Maize sequences for design of this chip were predominantly selected from the The Institute for Genomic Research TIGRR) maize gene index [ 33].

However, pre-miRNAs are significantly enriched in plasticity, supporting the hypothesis that they have been predominantly selected for functional diversification and evolvability.

The clones are predominantly selected to target areas of the human genome that, when deleted or duplicated, are known or highly suspected to cause well-characterized genetic defects.

Mutations that alleviate stresses imposed during growth on DCM had the potential to dramatically increase fitness, and restricting our evolution experiment to 150 generations predominantly selected these mutations.