Example sentences for: drift

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  • The QUASI algorithm thus indicates at this exemplary codon that both tyrosine and serine are positively selected; isoleucine, leucine, and cystine are negatively selected; and the selective advantage or disadvantage of valine is indistinguishable from neutral drift.

  • In surveying the growing number of studies and claims of new cells that can acquire some type of heart cell phenotype in vitro or in vivo (for a review see [6]), it will become increasingly important to create a set of rigorous criteria that would distinguish between the following: authentic progenitor cells that are already committed to the cardiac lineage; pluripotent stem cells that can infrequently adopt the cardiac phenotype; phenotypic drift of other muscle progenitors with an increased propensity to enter cardiac lineages; and a variety of other cell types that can aberrantly express cardiac markers ectopically or by fusion with neighboring cardiac muscle cells.

  • The people of Egypt give thanks to the Nile, but they worship Allah, and the haunting intonations of the muezzin drift across city and farmland calling the faithful to prayer.

  • Attributed in part to antigenic drift are the moderately high failure rate and the short-lived efficacy of influenza vaccines [ 6], the failure of synthetic foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines [ 7], and the inability of recombinant HIV vaccines to provide complete protection against field strains of the virus [ 8].

  • Any replacement mutation from cta or ctg has an expected R:S of 1:4, and thus an observed R:S of 2:0 will be sufficient to reject neutral drift in favor of positive selection.


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