evolutionary divergence

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryanddivergence

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evolutionary
adjective
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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divergence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdaɪˈvɜː.dʒəns/us
/dɪˈvɝː.dʒəns/
the situation in which two things ...
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Evolutionary divergences in leaf structure and chemistry, comparing rainfall and soil nutrient gradients.
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Extreme environmental change and evolution : stress-induced morphological variation is strongly concordant with patterns ofevolutionarydivergencein shrew mandibles.
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In particular, we have examined mammals and birds, two groups of vertebrates separated by over 300 million years ofevolutionarydivergence.
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Reading horizontally, we see that far greaterevolutionarydivergenceexists between the latter pair than between the former.
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The length of the horizontal bars is a measure of distance in time from a moment ofevolutionarydivergence.
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Each line leading from an uppercase to a lowercase letter represents anevolutionarydivergencefrom persistent to non-persistent seed banks.
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Theirevolutionarydivergenceis shown with a line.
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Multiple murine alpha-1 protease inhibitor genes show unusualevolutionarydivergence.
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This analysis demonstrates that although the primary structure varies considerably, the sizes and chemical compositions of lysins have been constrained during theirevolutionarydivergence.
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This contrast represents the amount ofevolutionarydivergencesince the taxa speciated from their common ancestor.
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Lysin is an extremely interesting species-specific protein that exemplifies an unusual mode ofevolutionarydivergencethat may be involved in the establishment of reproductive isolation between populations.
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The subsequent barrier to travel began theevolutionarydivergenceof species in different locations.
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This would seem to be the result of consistentevolutionarydivergence.
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This difference inevolutionarydivergencebetween the two genera may be due to differences in their activity patterns.
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This gene flow appears to be dominated by male migration, and occurs at such high levels as to likely preventevolutionarydivergenceof different populations.
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The conservation of the development of neuronal tissue along the anterior-posterior axis provides insight into theevolutionarydivergenceof coelenterates and bilaterians.
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Bacteria were also involved in the second greatevolutionarydivergence, that of the archaea and eukaryotes.
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Evolutionary divergences in leaf structure and chemistry, comparing rainfall and soil nutrient gradients.
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Conserved non-coding sequences can be important sites ofevolutionarydivergenceas mutations in these regions may alter the regulation of conserved genes, producing species-specific patterns of gene expression.
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Marsupials are at a convenient degree ofevolutionarydivergencefrom humans; mice are too close and have not developed many different functions, while birds are genetically too remote.
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