Sentences with phrase «low diversity»

However, areas of low diversity around gene segments might also be produced by other evolutionary mechanisms.

«It's this 5 - million - year period where there's no recovery, where there is a very low diversity of life.»

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Ultimately I developed a mathematical formula to find signals of recent adaptation by looking for regions of low diversity in the human genome: The longer a mutation has been there, the more diverse the code.

Low diversity means dysbiosis.

Targeted sequencing improves Neandertal mitochondrial DNA retrieval and reveals low diversity among individuals.

At last week's national BBLP meeting, 50 students gathered to discuss issues like low diversity and poor female partnership rates, and even the possibility of a union, which was discussed at a session lead by organizer Mary Kay Hentry of the Service Employees International Union.

A small 2013 study reported that infants with colic showed lower diversity and stability in their gut microflora than the control group.

Weber and colleagues found the polar bears had especially low diversity in their MHC genes.

It had been difficult to reconstruct the history of stallions before because there is extremely low diversity in the Y chromosomes of modern horses to start.

• Increased abundance of Bacteriodales in non-responders and a much lower diversity of bacteria.

A new study recently measured the gut microbiota in 728 female twins with varying degrees of frailty and discovered that people with a high Frailty Index (a measurement of frailty) possess gut microbiota with significantly lower diversity than those with low Frailty Index scores.

Recent research from Harvard found that repeated exposure to antibiotics lowers the diversity and robustness of children's gut bacteria, and, concerningly, leads to an increase in antibiotic resistance genes.

That probability is then normalized to produce a number between 0 and 1 with numbers closer to 0 representing lower diversity and numbers closer to 1 representing more diversity.

However, the dive areas have a relatively low diversity of fish compared to other sites on the Galapagos.

Legaltech founders have surprisingly low diversity (as noted, only 5 % are black / Latinx), which is especially problematic given that the justice gap disproportionately affects women, immigrants, and minorities.

They found that non-native oaks in regions with high oak species diversity showed more leaf damage than those in regions with low diversity.

For example, lower diversity of the gut microbiome has been associated with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and higher diversity in the vagina with bacterial vaginosis.

Savanna elephants and wooly mammoths have very low diversity, whereas the genetic diversity of forest elephants is very high; Asian elephants fall in the middle.

At the historically African - American college in the south they discovered higher religious participation but lower diversity, with only a nod to the concept of pluralism.

Problems arise when the alien plants become so widespread in an ecosystem that they lower the diversity of species.

«Low diversity, especially in the immune system, should be a concern.»

But a low diversity at the MHC could «plausibly increase the chance of a disease - driven [polar bear] population decline».

Overall, they found moderate levels of genetic variation in the jaguars, with the lowest diversity in Mexico, followed by Honduras.

«You get this compounding effect where you have a lower diversity of herbivores per tree but then you also are getting more similar species as you move between trees species and among sites, so you end up with even less diverse communities than you would expect,» said Burghardt.

As a median time to follow - up of 242 days, the patient group with high microbiome diversity had not reached median PFS (more than half had not progressed), while those with intermediate diversity had median PFS of 232 days and those with lower diversity had median PFS of 188 days.

The lowest diversity was on the drier, remote Azuero Peninsula, where several of the molecular lineages were entirely absent.

Clues to the low diversity may be found through studies of the animals» main predator.

The results are surprising, for even in the presence of many different herbivorous animals, plants produced the same amount of biomass as in simulations with a low diversity of herbivore species.

It would be very interesting to compare patterns and timings of this low diversity and see if they correspond to some historic event,» says Morin.

Earlier this year, Stanford University's Justin Sonnenburg found that mice fed a typical Western diet (high in fat and carbohydrates and low in fiber) transferred a lower diversity of beneficial microbial species to future generations.

A healthy reproductive tract is associated with vaginal bacterial communities of low diversity, often dominated by one of few species of Lactobacillus.

Basically, effective population differences (e.g, polygyny) just can not explain the lower diversity of the Y lineages (they ran simulations).

This low diversity means that passenger pigeons would have needed to be conserved as a one contiguous population, not a fragmented one.

But when the two groups were compared, the troughs of low diversity were similar for genes that produce functional changes and genes with synonymous substitutions that do not.

The result suggests that classic selective sweeps could not have been the most common cause of these low diversity troughs, leaving the door open for other modes of evolution.

According to Dr. Katherine Hanna, one of the study's authors, «Our results found that people who live alone have a lower diversity of food intake and a lower consumption of some core food groups like fruits and vegetables and fish.»

In general, low short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are associated with low diversity and abundance of the commensal bacteria.

I can't believe the event had such a low diversity ratio, given its theme, as you expressed.

If we lose coral reefs, Raymundo warned Truthout, «We will lose all our sensitive species, and we will have lower diversity.»

«And when reefs have lower diversity, there is less ecological redundancy; hence, they are more likely to collapse.»