Sentence examples for sweep hypothesis from inspiring English sources

Both values exceeded the corresponding 99th percentile, hence supporting the selective sweep hypothesis.

First, we tested the selective sweep hypothesis by assessing whether mitochondrial diversity within and among populations is idiosyncratically low.

The selective sweep hypothesis is particularly attractive; a highly fit genotype over time will increase its frequency relative to other genotypes and may occupy larger geographic areas.

Although he found "the proposition an intriguing one," he said, scholars will probably debate its pros and cons for several years until someone comes up with more research that supports or sweeps away the hypothesis.

We suggest that this phase modulation may be caused by the ECTL cavity optical pathlength varying slightly over the laser sweep, and support this hypothesis with numerical simulations.

We analysed separately the sample of "core clade" haplotypes and found significantly (p < 0.05) negative Tajima's D and Fu & Li's F*, which is indicative of a star-like genealogy compatible with the selective sweep (or founder event) hypothesis.

Testing selective sweep versus population bottleneck hypotheses requires an examination of multiple independent genetic markers [ 13].

But the sheer scope and sweep of the efficient markets hypothesis — not to mention the fact that so many people devoted their careers to it — allowed it to brush off most of these challenges.

Two are related to the blitzkrieg hypothesis: that humans swept across the continent from Siberia in a "killing front" that moved perhaps 100 miles in a decade, and that the animals were killed by diseases carried by people and their dogs from Siberia.

Yet, the present data were not consistent with the hypothesis that a selective sweep eliminated mitochondrial diversity alone.

According to Ramey et al. [ 13], if 15%% of the SNPs are monomorphic within a breed (Table  1), the probability that N contiguous SNPs are monomorphic is 0.15 N under the null hypothesis of no selective sweep in the genome.