Sentence examples for shift in function from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, the difference between E2F1 + gMCPH1 and E2F1 + mMCPH1 is significant (P <0.05, ANOVA test), suggesting continuum of functional divergence of MCPH1 during primate evolution with a major shift in function between Old World monkeys and apes and a probable further shift during human evolution.

Functional divergence is the process by which genes, after gene duplication, shift in function from an ancestral function.

Once combined, secondary adaptation may improve the integration of parts and may in the process enable other parts to be added, once again possibly resulting in a shift in function and beginning as a poor fit that is enhanced only later (Fig. 3).

That this shift in function does indeed represent co-option is indicated by the fact that calls produced during combat and courtship are similar in terms of structural characteristics; what varies is the context of the call (aggression or sex) and the sex of the receiver (Borgia and Coleman 2000).

This shift in function did not occur in Tg4.T-bet−/− Th17 cells.

Why would the shift in function not have occurred via a simpler genetic mechanism involving sign epistasis?

Fig. 3 A diagram showing the processes of exaptation (shifts in function), collage (assembling existing elements into new functional combinations), scaffolding (loss of a component that was formerly required for the assembly of a complex arrangements of parts), and direct adaptation by natural selection (including secondary adaptation) in the evolution of a complex feature.

Mr. Vergara takes us through all these dramatic shifts in function, fashion and fortune with an attitude of studied neutrality.

The process involved gene duplication, the input of a third hormone, and shifts in function.

Indirect evolutionary processes such as shifts in function (exaptation) and the combining of existing structures (collage) play important roles in the origin of complex organs.

Shifts in function help to explain how such a system could be assembled through less complex intermediate steps, but another process known as "scaffolding" is sometimes involved in the evolution of such functionally indivisible organs.