Sentence examples for selective specialization from inspiring English sources
Sweden's industry is smaller than that of the other major European aerospace countries, but through its national policy of selective specialization it, too, has developed a high degree of competence.
In children, the use of anatomical voxel-based morphometry methods revealed a cooccurrence of gray matter modulation in these aforementioned regions and the emergence of selective specialization for global visual processing [ 5].
Consequently, the selective specialization of the left early visual area, which is known to be more important during local visual processing [ 16], was less pronounced than that in the right early visual area.
This difference could reflect the more selective specialization of the early stages of visual processing in the right hemisphere that has to be initiated before the shift to a global visual bias in children can occur.
In agreement with the principle of selective specialization, we hypothesized that the reduction of cortical thickness in the right hemisphere in children in the global bias group would be associated with the emergence of an adult-like global attentional mode of visual processing.
This loss in gray matter density is traditionally attributed to a reduction in synaptic density, a phenomenon called "synaptic pruning," which is a fundamental neural plasticity mechanism that underlies selective behavioral specialization [ 22].
Furthermore, seasonal and annual changes in resource abundance require flexibility in resource use, perhaps counteracting any selective advantage gained by specialization.
Multiple copies of the upstream genes may relax selective constraints, allowing functional specialization of the duplicated copies as seen in the enantioselective degradation of α-HCH by LinA1/LinA2 in B90A (Suar et al. 2005), or it may increase the expression of the gene, with linA, linB, and linC all being expressed constitutively (Suar et al. 2004).
Just as morphological features may converge on a similar phenotype under selective pressure associated with ecological specialization, genes facing selection for a particular function may also converge.
However, both E. dilemma and E. viridissima are pollen generalists that are known to use very similar food resources [ 50], and the two species lack any noticeable differences in nesting biology (T. Eltz and S. Ramírez, pers. obs).. Thus, it is unlikely that the divergence we observed in olfactory receptor genes was due to selective pressures acting on foraging specialization.
