"selective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dr. Hebert believes that variation within a species is reduced by the evolutionary mechanism called a selective sweep.
- The other methods for detecting adaptive evolution use genome wide approaches, often to look for evidence of selective sweeps.
- It can, however, be exploited as a method for detecting the action of natural selection via selective sweeps.
- Background selection is the opposite of a selective sweep.
- For example, biologists try to infer which genes have been under strong selection by detecting selective sweeps.
- Whether or not a selective sweep has occurred can be investigated in various ways.
- A study of genetic variation among 269 humans found evidence for selective sweeps on chromosomes 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 22.
- White maize lines had increased diversity and no evidence of linkage disequilibrium associated with a selective sweep.
- Another example of the role of selective sweeps in domestication comes from the chicken.
- There appears to have been a selective sweep in Africa which reduced the incidence of this antigen there.
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