Sentence examples for adaptation flight from inspiring English sources

Sundman's interpretation of the personalities involved, the blind spots of the Swedish national culture, and the role of the press is reflected in the film adaptation, Flight of the Eagle (1982), based on his novel and directed by Jan Troell.

Wing shape, governed by the relative lengths of the forearm and the fingers, varies greatly, in adaptation to flight characteristics.

Although birds have the best part of 140 million years of adaptation to flight behind them (and then quite a lot of change wrought by domestic breeders) there are multiple features that can easily be traced between them and their predecessors.

Such a sensitization could result in a deficient adaptation to flight induced changes in atmospheric pressure that could trigger a brief headache attack [7].

Zhang et al. (2013) compared two related bat genomes and identified genes responsible for DNA damage checkpoint and NF-κB pathways subjected to strong selection, implying possible adaptation to flight.

Whether positive selection at SI and MGAM is part of a more general adaptation to flight in these animals remains an interesting possibility worth further investigation.

This hypothesis and the hypothesis that genome size reduction represents an adaptation to flight are not mutually exclusive, since both factors may be at work simultaneously.

As we know, avian genomes are commonly smaller and have fewer repetitive elements than other amniotes and that seems a key adaptation for flight [ 24].

As an adaptation to flight, bats generally display a reduced small intestinal nominal surface area compared with nonflying mammals, and resort to higher sugar paracellular absorption as a compensation (Caviedes-Vidal et al. 2007).

For example, we tend to think of bird feathers as beautiful adaptations for flight because they do such a great job of enabling flight today, but the evolutionary history of feathers tells a different story.

Birds have various adaptations for flight, including a lightweight skeleton, two large flight muscles, the pectoralis (which accounts for 15% of the total mass of the bird) and the supracoracoideus, as well as a modified forelimb (wing) that serves as an aerofoil.