Although it can act in opposition to local adaptation, by homogenizing genomic regions under diversifying selection between two species, it can also allow globally adaptive alleles to be shared between interfertile species, aiding adaptation (Seehausen 2004; Abbott et al. 2013).
The findings might be useful for farm level risk mitigation strategies in surface and groundwater systems, and for aiding adaptation to climate change.
This case study provides a good example of where a toolkit to aid adaptation would have been useful had it been available.
Further epidemiologic studies that incorporate archived climatological and environmental data in modeling specific health outcomes in vulnerable populations would aid adaptation to climate-change-related health effects through preparedness strategies implemented at various scales (37).
For example, at one wetland site, changes to water management regimes had not only aided adaptation but also benefitted farmers in agri-environment agreements who were trying to create grazing marsh.
In the stressful environment we infer that sex played a role in the both the more efficient removal of detrimental mutations and more efficient incorporation of beneficial mutations, which both will have aided adaptation.
Even though a direct increase in mutation rate in the affected samples would not be discernible in our data, the above sequence variants could still have aided adaptation to antibiotics in our experimental populations making these genes interesting candidates for future studies on the mechanisms of resistance evolution.
Depending on the individual's physical status, recommendations of an alternative access method, a change in seating/positioning, a mounting system and/or communication aid adaptations may be needed.
The effect of paralysis may be due to the scarce disability services in rural Thailand, with few opportunities to receive aids, adaptations, or community transport.
The results of phase I identified five main concerns for patients and families; loss and change, support needs (both emotional and practical), information needs (for services, aids, adaptations, benefits, and end-of-life planning), symptom control, and issues concerned with the delivery of care including co-ordination, continuity, and problems with inpatient care[ 35].
The metabolic changes characteristic of the chaperone deficient mutants, not observed in neither CCCP treatment, nor in the COA3-null mutant, may have a role to mitigate the proteotoxicity by aiding cellular adaptation to requirements of coping with stress.
