Sentence examples for slow mutation from inspiring English sources

Witness its slow mutation from the pansexual, decadent Anne Rice creatures to the current permutations — promising anything from chaste eternal love to wild nocturnal escapades — and there you will find the true essence of immortality: adaptability.

The research study, hence, revealed that the influenza virus polymerases are highly conserved (95 99%) proteins with a very slow mutation rate.

Although he is not yet sure why, McGowen hypothesizes that this slow mutation rate may somehow be a side effect of fast metabolisms and big brains.

He proposed that a high degree of genetic variability was necessary for major evolutionary advances, that because of slow mutation rates, genetic recombination was the most likely source of this variation, and that variation could be maximised though hybridization.

In a previous work analyzing dN/dS ratio in four closely related yeast species (S. cerevisiae, S. mikatae, S. bayanus, and S. paradoxus), the dN/dS ratio for YER067W was 0.03, indicating a relatively slow mutation rate given that the whole genome mean for dN/dS ratios in S. cerevisiae was 0.10 [21].

This finding is consistent with the phylogenetic nature of the LSP markers interrogated by the former method, implying slow mutation rates restricting their use to identification at lineage level [31] in contrast to MIRU-VNTR typing offering discrimination at strain level.

"A large generation time is often believed to result in slower mutation rates," Weir explains.

The team's method for checking the mutation rate is clever, says geneticist Aylwyn Scally of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., co-author of one of the studies that calculated the slower mutation rate in living humans.

According to proposed theories, animal taxa with large body sizes, long generation times, and low mass-specific metabolic rates should have a slower mutation rate [12] [15].

Divergence estimates were rescaled to time since separation in years using substitution rates of 2 and 4% per site per Ma as was discussed earlier for Littorina [25], [39] (note: we did not apply the 7.6% per site per Ma rate from [28], since it refers only to transitions in the third codon position, while our whole dataset of sequences also contains other, slower mutation types).

Even using the slowest mutation rate, it turns out that the two species diverged recently.