Sentence examples for an evolutionary struggle from inspiring English sources

That's because these eggs, and the developing chicks within, are victims of one of the most extraordinary conflicts in the animal world, an evolutionary struggle for life and death that has left behind countless unhatched baby birds buried within generations of nests.

Our study also provides insight into a possible evolutionary struggle for dual control over the function of the male transcriptome.

These new insights into the mechanisms used by P. pacificus to find hosts suggest that necromeny might not be a way-station on the road to parasitism but might rather be a détente (or compromise) reached in the evolutionary struggle between a parasite and its host.

This short term hard wiring was clearly a winner in the evolutionary struggle when life was "nasty, brutish, and short".

A species of African rat has developed a novel advantage in the evolutionary struggle - it slathers poison across the fur on its back.

The work paints a picture of the ongoing evolutionary struggle being waged within our genome.

Deception is a ubiquitous method in this evolutionary struggle.

This obvious contradiction, however, may be resolved by interpreting it in light of the constant evolutionary struggle between host and pathogen: DDX3X may have evolved as an antiviral protein, but viruses then, in turn, developed strategies to hijack DDX3X function and use it for their own benefit, thereby counteracting the antiviral effect of DDX3X.

-- Posted by Kenneth Pitchford Deceiving and lying can easily be thought of as biological adaptations, honed through the evolutionary struggle to survive.

In response to the evolutionary struggle between host and pathogen, many viruses have developed strategies to bypass the IFN antiviral system.

The perennial arms race between cellular organisms and various MGE seems to be one of the major driving forces underlying the evolution of both interacting parties and it is becoming increasingly clear that cells and MGE exchange molecular inventions that emerge in the process of this evolutionary struggle.