Sentence examples for adaptive origin from inspiring English sources

It has been argued that the effects of intrauterine cues such as prenatal undernutrition on later metabolic function have an adaptive origin [21], in that they are a result of evolved processes designed to maintain reproductive fitness across a range of potential environments.

Of those studies, all six amphibian studies and the one reptile study indicated an adaptive origin for genetic changes.

These explanations have been regarded as possibly supporting an adaptive origin for depression/low mood in humans [ 89], a condition which has been associated to polymorphisms in AVPR1B [ 17, 18].

Furthermore, we have shown that four out of five of these identified taxa show strong patterns of regional geographic dominance that suggests an adaptive origin to localised ecological conditions and offers a likely mechanism in mediating their co-existence performing the same ecological role in the same fig species.

Not surprisingly, then, documenting repeated evolution and confirming its adaptive origin has been the subject of much research effort, with over a hundred examples reported for animals alone over the last decade or so (and our survey was by no means exhaustive; see also [ 2– 5, 20, 23]).

Our results indicate some strong tissue-ubiquitous eQTLs may have adaptive origins in humans.

The results provide a step towards a quantitative understanding of the adaptive origins of regulatory systems.

Our results also suggest some of these common and strong tissue-ubiquitous eQTLs may have adaptive origins in humans.

Among the most tissue-ubiquitous cis-eQTLs, there is enrichment for genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism and mitochondrial function, suggesting these eQTLs may have adaptive origins.

Previous studies have used weighted square change parsimony and maximum likelihood (ML) to reconstruct ancestral character states and infer the adaptive origins of phenotypes [ 46- 49] and to study important genotype-phenotype associations [ 50].

We discuss the implications of our results for hypotheses on the adaptive origins of modern primates, and identify branches along which brain mass has increased greatly or at a high rate, or along which brain mass has decreased in either absolute or relative terms.