divergence

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This divergence is an indication of an impending reversal.

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  1. noun The act of diverging.
  2. noun The state of being divergent.
  3. noun The degree by which things diverge.
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  • They got on a boat, and yet another divergence -- the boat was either going to Canada or to Australia. —  Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine
  • BACKGROUND: Gene expression divergence is one manifestation of functional differences between duplicate genes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is now clear that expression divergence, regulatory-motif divergence and coding-sequence divergence all increase with the age of duplicate genes, although their exact interrelationships remain to be determined. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Furthermore, regulatory changes in juvenile fish match patterns in adult fish suggesting that gene expression divergence is established early in juvenile fish and persists throughout the adult phase. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • We show that expression divergence is significantly correlated to the number of new LTR and SINE elements, but not to the numbers of LINEs. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. Sometimes also devergence; = German divergenz = Danish Swedish divergens, from French divergence = Spanish Portuguese divergencia = Italian divergenza, from Middle Latin *divergentia, from divergen(t-)s, present participle of *divergere, diverge: see divergent and -ence.
 

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