A method for studying collagen synthesis in the musculoskeletal tissues in vivo without the use of invasive procedures would be advantageous in animal and human exercise models, both with regards to limiting the invasiveness and because such a method would allow for easier investigation of several collagen rich tissues, e.g. tendon, ligament and bone, simultaneously.
The allele specificity of the finding and the fact that the ATPalpha DTS1R1 strain has increased longevity suggest that a specific level of ATPalpha impairment might be advantageous to animal longevity.
But Mark Changizi, a theoretical neurobiologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, thinks that sex was an important driving factor in the origin of tricolor vision; last year, he proposed that it was advantageous for animals to detect blushing.
GC-rich DNA is assumed to produce a more heat-stable helix [162] and thus can be selectively advantageous in animals with high metabolic regulation induced by environmental drivers such as light, temperature, salinity, oxygen, and pH.
Surely the increased oxygen affinity of hemoglobin is not the only adaptation to high altitude in guinea pigs, but increased blood oxygen affinity has been proven to be advantageous for animals living at high altitudes, because it increases the oxygen saturation of the arterial blood [1], [2], [3], [19], [35].
It is tempting to speculate that this may be advantageous in animals that are organized in social kinship groups sharing the same environmental exposure to pathogens.
Because LTM formation is energetically costly (Mery and Kawecki, 2005; Placais and Preat, 2013), it is advantageous for animals to refer to surrounding conditions when selecting what information to retain as stable LTM.
In other words, it would be advantageous for an animal to give an alarm call, and thus place itself in danger, to warn a group of relatives, since its relatives also carry copies of its genes.
Stimuli specific to a species' natural habitat should not always be considered meaningful, or advantageous, to an animal's welfare; in some cases stimuli that do not occur naturally in the wild (e.g. classical music) may offer more in the way of welfare advantages.
We have recently demonstrated that addition of M1 and NS1 to NP is advantageous in several animal models of DNA vaccination [9].
