Sentence examples for soft sweep from inspiring English sources

In sequencing their subjects' genomes, the researchers found that a soft sweep was indeed responsible for the earlier hatching.

Is it the squawk of seagulls or the soft sweep of a wave across a sandy beach?

All it needs to do is increase the abundance of some of the genes affecting the trait in question, a process known as a "soft sweep".

The alternative, called a soft sweep, is that many genes influence a trait, in this case the rate of maturation, and that the growth-accelerating versions of each of these genes become just a little more common.

The soft sweep of the seconds hand reminds us of the fleeting nature of time while the endless ticking in a dark room is a comfort and a spur to action.

A challenge in the use of H2/H1 is that its range depends on the associated value of H12, so that equal H2/H1 values might provide different levels of support for a soft sweep model at different values of H12.

Soft sweeps work on traits affected by many genes, like height.

Hard sweeps do occur in sexually reproducing organisms like people and fruit flies, but soft sweeps may be more usual.

The fruit fly experiment shows that natural selection can indeed work through soft sweeps, at least for certain traits.

In an article in Current Biology in February, Dr. Pritchard suggested that a lot of natural selection may take place through what he called soft sweeps.

Among exceptions is the set of haplotype homozygosity statistics introduced for the detection of soft sweeps by Garud et al. (2015).