"shared preference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a preference or opinion that two or more people have in common. For example, "We both shared a preference for Italian food."
In the case of these two species of bears, the one-sided use of insects by sun bears might either signify exploitation of a less-preferred food source in response to present competition with black bears for more-preferred fruits (the shared preference paradigm) or may reflect differences in morphology of the two species of bears (perhaps stemming from competition on an evolutionary time scale).
Moreover, the blockade of gap junctions eliminated the shared preference for stimulus orientation, which further supports the idea that electrical coupling between sibling neurons plays a part in influencing the functional organization of the cortex.
It is tempting to speculate that the sensory preference of these sub-networks might then be developed by similar mechanisms: electrically coupled neurons could select and stabilize a common set of sensory inputs, which would endow these cells with a shared preference for certain sensory features.
Our shared preference ordering is, for instance, consistent with me finding a vacation in Cardiff a dream come true while you just find it the best of a bad lot.
These results indicate broadly overlapping fundamental niches combined with asymmetric competition—features consistent with the concept of shared preference niches.
Thus, in addition to a shared preference for the same curved conformation of αβ-tubulin, TOG1 and TOG2 also bind αβ-tubulin with comparable affinities.
With one exception, females shared preferences for the same males and the preferred males displayed higher courtship activity than their rejected counterparts (Steinwender et al., 2012).
Focus group participants shared preferences for on-demand and personalized push message education.
Contrary to the prevalent notion that shared preferences facilitate ethnic collective action, differences in goals and priorities among participants were not found to be structured along ethnic lines.
One's striving is the striving of the community, a shared preferencing and valuing developed through traditions, rites, norms, etc.
Bear coexistence in Thung Yai appears structured chiefly though shared preferences, but mixtures of preferences can also occur in nature [4].
