Sentence examples for be driven by adaptations from inspiring English sources
Crucially, the rib cage, sternal morphology and associated musculature, appear to be driven by adaptations to different forms of locomotion.
Given the important respiratory function of the UP, variation in morphology suggests that differences in ventilatory mechanics may be driven by adaptation to locomotion.
Alternatively, the diversification of widespread species could be driven by adaptation along environmental abiotic gradients.
Alternatively, the diversification of widespread species might be driven by adaptation along environmental gradients.
Such a unique evolutionary process may be important for mtrA gene function and may be driven by adaptation to survive in a methanogenesis manner under some particular environment.
Sperm evolution is regarded to be one of the major consequences of sperm competition in polyandrous species, however it can also be driven by adaptation to the environmental conditions at the site of fertilization.
"We wondered if perhaps the split of the original species into these two is driven by adaptations in their visual system due to light at different water depths," Dr. Seehausen said.
A central concern in the analysis of multigene family diversification is the extent to which it is driven by adaptation to species-specific environmental niches.
These results suggest that LG12 is not central in the adaptation to the Baltic Sea environment, but rather the selection in this genomic region is driven by adaptation to temperature variation, not encountered by the Baltic Sea cod.
Some lineages have specific genomic signatures that underlie phenotypes (Skelly et al., 2013) but whether this is driven by adaptation or by genetic drift remains an open question (Warringer et al., 2011).
However, positive selection in rbcL of Schiedea could have been driven by adaptation to contrasting environments (e.g. rainforest vs. dry coastal cliffs) and it remains unclear how common is positive selection in rbcL of other phototrophs.
