Sentence examples for severe selective pressure from inspiring English sources

This is remarkable and consistent with the interpretation of Drummond and colleagues who argued that highly expressed proteins evolve slowly because of the severe selective pressure on highly expressed proteins to avoid misfolding even when they are mistranslated [ 20].

Interestingly, this effect was only evident in second hatched chicks, which might be explained by the fact these chicks suffer from more severe selective pressures due to sibling competition and brood reduction (unpublished data, see also [ 43]).

Given that the plants in riparian flooded habitats suffer severe selective pressures, the invasion of flooded habitats is likely achieved by small numbers of founders, leading to reduced genetic diversity and effective population sizes through genetic drift.

This is especially plausible if the carrier did not exhibit the usual severe symptoms, in which case no selective pressure through antibiotic treatment would take place.

Natural selection focuses its selective pressure on producing optimal reproductive fitness in the mating members of any species.

In this process there is a potential selective pressure for secondary mutations suppressing the most severe manifestation of the phenotype.

The hypothesis that males undergo more severe bottlenecks than females is supported by the discrepancy in levels of selective pressure between the autosomes and the X chromosome.

The frequency of cyclonic storms that generate severe modification of a mountain arroyo ecosystem appears to have served as a selective pressure on native treefrogs resulting in a specific behavior to avoid the negative effects of the floodwaters.

In large part it is presumed that selective pressure by malaria is associated with Pf because high rates of severe falciparum malaria mortality are observed in Africa.

Several genes involved in determining skin color have been under selective pressure in Europeans and East Asians.

The high gene frequency of the sickle cell mutation (HbS) in Africa, which confers protection against severe malaria in heterozygotes but causes fatal sickle cell disease in homozygotes, illustrates the powerful selective pressure exerted by malaria on the human genome.