Sentence examples for selective history from inspiring English sources

We asked whether the immunity factor, Relish, a gene with a history of directional selection in Drosophila simulans, shows evidence of a similar selective history in other Drosophila species.

This allows one to ask the general question of whether a gene with a history of recurrent adaptive protein evolution in one species is likely to have a similar selective history in other species; that is, is directional selection idiosyncratic or predictable?

The likelihood of new mutations being advantageous, neutral or deleterious will depend on the previous selective history of the affected traits, advantageous mutations being rare where natural selection has been acting consistently in the past, fixing most of the available beneficial variants and more frequent where selection was more variable.

Another problem is selective history.

Many fictions have been woven into the shame, and much selective history.

Their views, more outlandish than realistic, were bolstered with selective history.

In the present study, different geographic populations of D. melanogaster with different past selective histories were used as independent replicates for three selection experiments.

In focusing on selective histories of what now seem largely mundane, unremarkable innovations in illumination, Sandy Isenstadt reveals the initial astonishment that greeted their world-changing capacities, the sense of wonder that prefigured their rapid transformation into institutionalized, standardized modern technologies.

The drawing, along with Selective Histories and Donning Face, includes art and heirlooms, bringing to mind how wealth is maintained.

Rather than statistically testing specific loci, we can use their position relative to this distribution to gain insights about their selective histories.

Selective histories revealed by these three signatures of molecular differentiation were found to be markedly different between each pair of paralogs.