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These associations generated the hypothesis that early activation of the p38MAPK-HSP25 pathway might be a functional adaptation that maintained podocyte structure and function and prevented albuminuria in response to the glucose stressor.

Increased leaf N content (area basis) is therefore concluded to be a functional adaptation to, and not a passive consequence of, water shortage and therefore potentially relevant as a breeding target for crops to be grown in a climate change future with increased risk of drought.

We have investigated the hypothesis that wall sculpturing is a functional adaptation designed to increase the wettability of the walls of xylem conduits, an effect which could be described as the inverse of the well-known lotus-effect.

The separate analysis resulted in different biomass allocation between leaves and shoots in the two irrigation treatments, which means that the allocational shift in response to drought is a functional adaptation to drought independent of plant size (Poorter and Nagel, 2002).

Their exceptional mechanical properties are believed to be due to a functional adaptation of the structure at all levels of hierarchy.

However, the few W COG category sequences recovered from I-1m are orthologs of E. coli secreted adhesins often associated with intestinal and nonintestinal infections (Restieri et al. 2007), and their presence is not likely to represent a functional adaptation specific to the gut environment of the 1-month-old infant.

It is still unclear if osteophytes are simply a pathological phenomenon or a functional adaptation in OA.

Impaired neurocognitive functioning is considered to be mediating the functional adaptation in depression [ 23, 24].

These PDE1Cb genes, which seem to be neofunctionalized in terms of expression patterns, may be under functional adaptation to their new subcellular environments.

Here, the A > T mutation in polymerase box B of the recent subfamily II and the T > G transversion in polymerase box A of subfamily IIB is not observed in the more ancestral subfamily I and thus could be evidence of functional adaptation driving ongoing subfamily II proliferation.

This distinction is important when functional adaptation of plants is discussed in the context of plant breeding.