Sentence examples for retain persistence from inspiring English sources

The marking scents of skunks, which are also used for defense (see below Behaviour and chemoreception: Defensive odours), may retain persistence by incorporating a chemical that breaks down slowly to produce the dominant effective compound.

Thus, while it is important to avoid removing the selection pressure altogether (which would halt adaptation and could prevent long-term persistence), strategies that retain the direction of selection but lessen its magnitude may help tip the scales toward adaptation rather than extinction.

The experimental observations are in close agreement with model predictions (Figs 6 and 3A): First, wild-type cells with strong persistence (p = 0.92) retain chemotaxis after the cAMP gradient has disappeared.

Our modified tests retain the same rates of consistency against persistence change processes as their unmodified counterparts.

We suggest that continued expression of these molecules, as a consequence of the persistence of antigen 85A, helps to retain the cells in the lungs.

It will require persistence because power nearly always seeks to retain power, it rarely volunteers to share.

Its persistence among the general public suggests that many retain this view even after instruction in evolution.

In the present study, we demonstrate that DD cells show greater persistence over time than control CT cells, and retain a distinctly pro-fibrotic physiology.

TAP communities' persistence in retaining transhumant cattle, albeit in decline, could also be because cattle can be moved to safer places where resources are available, thus offering a flexibility which is not possible with crops.

All plants of the genus are known for their persistence; they grow well even in dry waste soil and can retain enough moisture to bloom and ripen seeds long after they have been uprooted.

The fly therefore appears to retain as much information of foraging history as possible, while allowing the relative persistence of the resultant constituent memories to inform later behavior.