Sentence examples for role of drift from inspiring English sources

The odd-even effect in time-lags we use for rough estimates of the relative role of drift effects in establishing long-term modulation.

It is shown that the role of drift in the temporal changes of the energy spectrum of the 11-year variation of GCR is insignificant in both of the qA > 0 and the qA<0 solar magnetic cycles.

Neutron monitor and interplanetary magnetic field data have been used to study features of the role of drift effect in the temporal changes of the diurnal anisotropy and of the energy spectrum of the 11-year variation of galactic cosmic rays.

In this context, the combination of the modern Evo-Devo approach to complex phenotypes (Hallgrímsson and Lieberman 2008; Hallgrímsson et al. 2007) and the exploration of the relative role of drift versus selection driven by climate (Betti et al. 2009a; Harvati and Weaver 2006; Roseman 2004) will enhance our knowledge of the signal that past processes leave on ancient and modern skulls.

Finding that a trait is polymorphic at multiple loci, supports the role of drift and/or balancing selection in the genetics of the trait.

Given our findings with D. mojavensis and in other systems discussed above, however, we believe it is premature to discount the role of drift and balancing selection in speciation.

Instances of parallel ecotypic divergence where adaptation to similar conditions repeatedly cause similar phenotypic changes in closely related organisms are especially useful for disentangling the respective roles of drift and natural selection in shaping genomic divergence among genomes and for studying the genes underlying local adaptation7.

There has been vigorous debate regarding the roles of drift and selection in the evolution of genes, genomes and organisms [71], [72], but the mechanisms by which genomic changes result in evolutionary novelties remain unclear.

The rapid development of large-scale catalogs of genetic variation has increased interest in identifying targets of positive selection, which will ultimately increase our understanding of the roles of drift and selection during adaptation.

However, more extensive population-level data for Mesotoga spp. and thermophilic Thermotogales is needed to decipher the relative roles of drift and selection in genome evolution within these lineages.

Since A. thaliana shows a large distribution range throughout the Northern Hemisphere [ 7] and grows in highly differentiated local habitats, it is ideally suited to investigate the roles of drift and selection in phenotypic variation.