Sentence examples for proportion of evolutionary from inspiring English sources

Incompatibilities between three or more loci are theoretically expected to be more common than incompatibilities between two loci, because a greater proportion of evolutionary paths to higher-order incompatibilities do not pass through a less fit intermediary (Orr 1995).

Our point is that the proportion of evolutionary biologists working on drug resistance is tiny compared with the importance and size of the problem – and the conceptual interest of the issues involved.

A considerable proportion of evolutionary insect-plant research has been devoted to the possibility that ecological speciation in plant-feeding insects occurs in sympatry, so that both sister lineages are formed within a continuous geographical area [ 4, 13, 27].

This calculation was made from the proportion of evolutionary models analysed by rj-MCMC for which a value of zero was assigned to the transition parameter (Z-score) [ 28, 32, 33].

Because sexually antagonistic alleles do not experience purifying selection continuously (each allele spends an equal proportion of evolutionary time within male and female genomic backgrounds), they are particularly likely to reach intermediate population frequencies (Rice 1984; Connallon and Clark 2012; Dean et al. 2012) and contribute disproportionately to phenotypic variance.

These covariances are estimated from the phylogenetic tree computed from the original data so that the covariance between distances d(A,B) and d(C,D) equals the proportion of evolutionary history shared by the four species (i.e., the distance between the node separating A and B, and the node separating C and D).

Plots of lepidopteran diversity and phylogeny through time suggest that a high proportion of their evolutionary history remains undetected in the fossil record.

These taxa are members of the opisthokonts, which according to current taxonomic consensus is one of six eukaryotic 'supergroups' [ 24] and therefore only represents a relative small proportion of the evolutionary history and genomic diversity of known eukaryotic life.

What proportion of the results of evolutionary systems biology analyses are similar to one another?

A relatively high proportion of studies found evidence of evolutionary changes, but clear evidence that adaptive evolutionary shifts were directly caused by climate change was somewhat less common [but see: (Franks et al. 2007; Thompson et al. 2007; Franks 2011; Avolio et al. 2013; Avolio and Smith 2013; Sultan et al. 2013; Thompson et al. 2013)].

The proportion of genes showing higher evolutionary rate in annuals than in perennials and the P-value of sign-test in three different measures of the evolutionary rate (d, dN and dS) are listed in the table.