Sentence examples for reducing fitness from inspiring English sources

WHEN a novel mutation appears in the genome of an organism, it may have three different effects on the fitness (w = 1 + s) of its carrier: The mutation may be deleterious (s < 0), reducing fitness through reduced fertility or survival rate.

Therefore, even though laboratory results should not be extrapolated directly to field populations, our results suggest that reproductive success may be sensitive to noise pollution, potentially reducing fitness.

However, slower growth means…slower growth, thus delaying reproduction and reducing fitness.

Here the presence of specialist phage performs a local smoothing of the fitness landscape, with differential predation increasing or reducing fitness from the baseline given by growth rate.

The ability of drug-resistant bacteria to propagate in environmental microbial communities in turn depends on selection pressures reducing fitness for competitors lacking relevant resistance determinants.

To model a well-adapted population, each simulation is initialised so that all non-synonymous changes from the ancestral sequence are negatively selected, reducing fitness by a factor of 1− s d.

"Diet-related diseases also cost society in terms of decreased work productivity, increased absenteeism, poorer school performance and reduced fitness on the part of military recruits," it adds.

They can be spread laterally, and they can reduce fitness.

An important component of lemur health, parasite infection can reduce fitness and survival outcomes.

The frozen accident hypothesis argued that changes to the code would destabilize the proteome and reduce fitness.

Self-sterile isolates lack the MAT1-2-1 gene and have reduced fitness such as slower growth and reduced pathogenicity, relative to self-fertile isolates.