Sentence examples for reinforcing selection from inspiring English sources

These studies suggest that this species is under strong reinforcing selection to increase allocation to flowering stem height.

However, reinforcing selection could be counteracted by gene flow from allopatric populations [ 42], especially when secondary contact is recent.

Strong reinforcing selection at hybrid contact zones, in particular, can lead to elevated substitution rates in genes associated with reproductive isolation [ 11- 15].

Our study quantifies a three-way interaction between plants, pollinators and seed predators in a deceptive orchid system in which mutualists and antagonists are exerting concordant, reinforcing selection on a plant trait, reproductive stem height.

However, the continued small-grained populations in Early Historic South India (Nevasa) and apparent reversion in later Medieval Libya suggests that there may be factors that work against gigantism in pearl millet, and in the absence reinforcing selection populations may tend towards the smaller size ranges.

That tonal language, if used by individuals with whom communicating well is particularly helpful, could then reinforce selection for those alleles.

The molecular drive arising from biased DNA uptake would reinforce selection for uptake sequences linked to beneficial alleles and oppose the elimination of uptake sequences associated with deleterious mutations.

This population genetic structure may have in turn reinforced selection against deleterious recessive alleles, which is consistent with the observation of a negative correlation of viability with individual heterozygosity (H i ).

According to this hypothesis, sexual selection reinforces natural selection in favouring advantageous alleles or counter-selecting disadvantageous alleles.

This reinforces the selection of calcium oxide as a stable catalyst in the transesterification reaction without undergoing major physico-chemical changes.

Their success had nothing to do with them being chosen for Denver, she said, but only "reinforced the selection process as we had already invited the films".