Sentence examples for be a major adaptive from inspiring English sources

In addition, rigid shells and shields did not allow much movement and locomotion; therefore, the next major change in the evolution of skeleton dislocation of mineralized skeleton from the outside to the inside of animal bodies, proved to be a major adaptive advantage.

Although CD4+ T cells are a major adaptive source of IFN-gamma, their ability to respond to infection is slower than that of NK cells.

This is a major adaptive mechanism to survive hypoxia.

Flowering time is a major adaptive trait and an important selection criterion in plant breeding.

This strategy is a major adaptive trait in wild barley [ 16].

Consequently, the regulation of the flowering time has been a major adaptive trait during plant evolution and domestication.

Dormancy is a major adaptive response of native plants that allows them to cope with environmental variation and provide a means of habitat selection [ 27- 29].

The transition from energy harvesting to dissipation of the photosynthetic apparatus in needles that takes place during winter hardening is a major adaptive response.

Flowering time is a major adaptive trait in plants and in particular in the case of wheat because it determines the environmental conditions of reproduction with respect to climate and pathogen pressures (Remington and Purugganan 2003; Goldringer et al. 2006; Rhoné et al. 2008; Rhoné et al. 2010).

In order for a man's parental investment to benefit his offspring, he must know who his offspring are and establishing paternity was probably a major adaptive problem for ancestral humans (Daly, Wilson, & Weghorst, 1982; Symons, 1979).

Phase variation of surface molecules is a common mechanism in mycoplasma species [ 33] and is probably a major adaptive strategy for these minimal pathogens.