Sentence examples for were artificially selected from inspiring English sources

The host selection lines were artificially selected to have a small (more melanic) or a large (less melanic) orange patch expressed on an otherwise black body [23].

A total of 67,051 SNPs between Koshihikari and Nipponbare, some of which derived from originating landraces and distributed through Koshihikari relatives, and 18 pedigree haplotype blocks which were artificially selected during breeding.

Males of one genotype which consistently lost territorial encounters with other genotypes were nonetheless successful against males that were artificially selected for supernormal aggression and dominated all other lines.

In a study of over a thousand mice, half of which were artificially selected on a behavioral trait, we found no sex difference in the unselected group, while females in the selected group had higher right rear 2D∶4D than did selected males [20].

We tested whether our algorithm was able to detect functional enrichment when the input miRNAs were artificially selected for their targeting of a given process.

We examined the relationship between brain size and cognitive ability in laboratory lines of Trinidadian guppies that were artificially selected for large or small relative brain size (Kotrschal et al. 2012, 2013a).

Individual members of a population of trillions of bacteria have always been resistant to antibiotics, and those individual members are being artificially selected for survival based on supernatural selection, or humans wiping out the less fortunate microbial competition.

Such actions might involve limiting immigration of maladapted individuals (e.g., a unidirectional barrier keeping out maladapted cooler genotypes), increasing genetic variation or local adaptation by selective introduction of genotypes, or releases of populations that have been artificially selected in the laboratory.

In divergent selection experiments, the initial inbred is splitted into two populations, that are artificially selected for highest and lowest values of a given trait.

Lettuce, by contrast has been artificially selected to be delicate and tasty.

Broilers and turkeys are artificially selected and bred to produce birds that grow quickly – at a rate 300% faster than those birds raised in 1960, according to the ASPCA – and produce as much breast protein as possible, to the point where the birds have a hard time standing upright.