Although the gazelle's adaptation appears advantageous, physiologist Shane Maloney of University of Western Australia in Crawley says there could be long term consequences of shrinking one's heart and liver.
So is this a dangerous condition, or an advantageous adaptation for elite athletes?
That could be an advantageous adaptation in a hot environment, the scientists argue.
Clustering related to the regulation of gene expression involved in bacterial adaptation could be advantageous for these bacteria.
According to Jékely, cell-wall loss would be one advantageous adaptation.
This would produce a situation where local adaptation (first mutation advantageous) or cryptic genetic variation (first mutation deleterious and now associated with a compensatory mutation) would produce, at least, a pair of coadapted genes.
As a class, brainstorm animal adaptations that are advantageous.
As Africanized bees expand into temperate areas, their tropical adaptations are less advantageous.
However, many modern ornithologists suggest that these features could be advantageous adaptations that have nothing to do with paedomorphism.
All of these adaptations are locally advantageous.
