selective pressure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofselectiveandpressure
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selective
adjective
uk/sɪˈlek.tɪv/us/səˈlek.t̬ɪv/
intentionally choosing some things and ...
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pressure
noun
uk/ˈpreʃ.ər/us/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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(Definition ofselectiveandpressurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What could be theselectivepressureon lysin?
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Presently, the three lines are maintained without furtherselectivepressure.
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Reproductive recovery is presumed to provide theselectivepressurefavouring evolution of a lethal host response.
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This finding does not support the view that this site is under positiveselectivepressure.
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This can provide aselectivepressurefor antidote-producing plasmids in the population.
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The more we use, the moreselectivepressureis placed upon bacteria to develop resistance.
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The two factors at whichselectivepressureis applied are the individual and the group.
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Aselectivepressureseems to be acting, within each inflorescence, with top flowers being favoured.
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Therefore, aselectivepressurefor the optimization of these primitive networks is conceivable.
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It is conceivable that they cause the highestselectivepressuretheir hosts encounter.
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Eventually, however,selectivepressurewill maintain only those properties of the behavior that fit the environment.
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Another evaluation of population structure might result from analysis of genes subject to a differentselectivepressure.
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This might indicate that the changes in this region could be the result of similarselectivepressure.
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If so, can the forces responsible for imposing theselectivepressurebe found and subjected to detailed study?
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There must also beselectivepressureto match the machinery for vesicular release to the required information rate.
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So by "same time" we mean there are multiple entities undergoing theselectivepressureof a given iteration.
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Nevertheless, theselectivepressureimposed by herbivores may still depend upon the individual circumstances of any particular seedling.
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This indicates, and allows for, a stringentselectivepressureensuring the maintenance of highly specific functional tasks.
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Therefore, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have probably been too infrequent to pose a constantselectivepressureon ancestral human populations.
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They cause the burrowing behavior, and the burrowing behavior creates the niche, which exerts futureselectivepressure.
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In such areas, there will be aselectivepressurefor species with high tolerance for moisture contents in wood.
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In so doing, these enzymes may have generatedselectivepressureto be retained and, therefore, broken free of the invasion-elimination cycle of most homing sequences.
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