Sentence examples for selective value from inspiring English sources

Young, K. D. The selective value of bacterial shape.

Accordingly, to maximize their selective value, long-lived species face a trade-off between survival and reproduction.

This observation is in keeping with the view that such landscapes have had long standing selective value for hominins.

Because one male can impregnate many females, thus lowering the selective value of an individual male, females are more valuable than males in an evolutionary sense.

But defenders of the theory argue that these discrepancies can be assimilated by modifying the theory somewhat by assuming, for example, that alleles are not strictly neutral but their differences in selective value are quite small.

Beyond the canopy architecture, the cross-sectional morphology of branches in E. cooperi with concave faces has selective value in balancing increased surface area with maintenance of adequate storage volume.

Tree euphorbias share many traits with arborescent cacti in having tall and multi-branched forms of growth which have selective value for maximizing photosynthetic surface area and water storage.

As early as 1967, Sadoglu tried to measure the selective value of eye loss.

In the extreme dark, vision has little utility; thus, eyes would not be of much selective value.

These cases where virulence is obviously of no selective value (neutral) [16] led to the hypothesis of coincidental evolution of virulence factors.

However, these elements often encode products with a selective value for the host, and bacteria increase their fitness and diversity when they acquire these elements.