Sentence examples for adaptation to reduce from inspiring English sources

However, all modern cetaceans lack a hair coat, presumably an adaptation to reduce friction and improve locomotion.

The current study attempted to use adaptation to reduce the inhibitory effect of a TPO on memory performance.

Three basic farmland adjustment scenarios were put forward as the risk adaptation to reduce human construction induced ecological risk instead of changing the building site.

Therefore, the outcome of the present study can be a basis for future planning towards mitigation and adaptation to reduce the impact of climate change induced geodisasters in the basin.

Bacterial adaptation to reduce the outer membrane permeability is an increasing problem worldwide, which contributes, along with efflux systems, to the emergence and dissemination of antibiotic resistance.

If this is how multiple waves of feather replacement develop in H. mystacea, stepwise replacement of the primaries and secondaries may be a consequence of interruptions of flight feather replacement caused by the demands of parental care or by poor environmental conditions for molting, rather than an adaptation to reduce the time in molt.

This pattern, which is known as the "island rule" (Van Valen 1973), is thought to be the result of adaptation to reduced food abundance for large species and reduced competition from other small species (Lomolino 1985).

In this context, the molecular characterization of the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF -1 and unravelling of its regulation were breaktHIF -1s for our understanding of cellunravellingtiof to reduced oxygenatits.

Do the observed changes in embryo size below the lower thermal limit and of shape above the upper thermal limit reflect an adaptation to reduced aerobic metabolism at those temperatures?

Calorically restricted rodents have significantly longer reproductive and total life spans than their ad libitum-fed controls and exhibit a spectrum of biochemical and physiologic alterations that characterize their adaptation to reduced intake.

Although this confirms the specificity of the antibody, further work will be needed to determine whether the changes in ChREBP expression relates to a technical problem with the generation of the cell lines or is a biological adaptation to reduced ChREBP expression.