"striking distinction" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to emphasize the considerable difference between two things. For example, "The striking distinction between the two books was immediately apparent to everyone who read them."
Two years earlier, a Spanish-style red tile roof had been built in sections atop the stone clubhouse, giving it a striking distinction that has persisted over the years.
The most striking distinction is between those who rely on a priori reasoning and those who generalize from empirical facts in a social scientific fashion.
So do a few hints of Montana's burgeoning popularity: vacation condos under construction and a gas station that advertised itself as a "Travel Shoppe". But the ranch's most striking distinction may be that it deals more in environmental awareness and haute cuisine than it does in cowboy nostalgia and trail grub.
A striking distinction of the DGs of diptera is the absence of the IG1 domain (supplementary material Fig. S1C).
Comparisons within the Gammaproteobacteria (135 genomes; excluding enterics) yielded even more significant correlations (table 1) and furthermore a striking distinction of the three classes (fig. 1 c ). Differences between the GroEL dependency classes account for 87% of the variation between class-specific mean dN values (table 2).
A binary table representing this information including all probe ids used is available in Table 3. Figure 2b depicts entire data set grouped by phenotype (cancer versus normal) and demonstrates the striking distinction in gene expression of the panel genes between cancer and normal tissue.
In their dentition they also present striking distinctions.
The race for the seat being vacated by longtime Senator Herb Kohl, a Democrat, ("Tammy versus Tommy," in the shorthand of Wisconsin) offers nothing if not striking distinctions.
However, there are several striking distinctions between the properties noted for translocation in rod photoreceptors and the translocation of the G protein βγ complex examined here.
One of the most striking distinctions is the observed differential response to drugs that target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).
One of the most striking distinctions occurs at the 6-phosphogluconate (6PGN) node, where the EDP and the PPP split.
