Sentence examples for an evolutionary opportunity from inspiring English sources

These parasites have turned an evolutionary problem (being killed along with their host) into an evolutionary opportunity (being transferred to the predator and continuing to feed).

These "accessory" beneficial genes represent an evolutionary opportunity (or therapeutic opportunity) which can be detected by SPI.

In treating protein-coding genes, which satisfy these criteria, as the resource, the PGH inverts the BQH to focus on gene acquisition rather than on gene loss as an evolutionary opportunity.

The minor expansion of the CDPK family in chromalveolates has created an evolutionary opportunity for certain copies of CDPK genes to subfunctionalize, adapting the additional regulatory role for promoting phosphorylation-dependent inter-domain closure.

Even the "invention of agriculture" -- perhaps the most far-reaching change to this planet we've wrought -- is something we could never have pulled off without the active participation of other species, the ones that seized the new evolutionary opportunity when it presented itself.

All of this "mixing" represents evolutionary opportunity.

Yes, crisis precipitates evolutionary opportunity.

Species-poor communities and resultant evolutionary opportunity might also occur with no-analog climates.

Extensive, carefully structured host range testing will be necessary to determine the relative importance of sampling bias, life-history variation, and evolutionary opportunity in shaping the steepness of the phylogenetic signal in host range.

This is because, "Just as adaptive evolution by natural selection is less easy in a small population of a species...because the total pool of genetic variability is less, so it is probable that a group containing many diversified species will be able to seize new evolutionary opportunities more easily than an undiversified group" (Hutchinson 1959).

However, these chemically noxious prey then become evolutionary opportunities for small consumers (think insects, but in the sea they are usually small shrimplike organisms, crabs or snails) that can gain protection from their own enemies by living on and eating these toxic prey that are not visited by fishes.