Sentence examples for became specialized for from inspiring English sources

But before they became specialized for hearing, the bones of the middle ear were part of the jaw of synapsids, reptile-like ancestors of mammals.

Feathers became specialized for different functions, and at the same time the eyes, brain, and respiratory and circulatory systems continued to develop in a manner associated with the evolution of homeothermic, arboreal, gliding animals.

One of the major ways that such rudimentary lenses became specialized for their new imaging function was by the accumulation of refractive proteins known as crystallins within the cells of which they are composed.

Inferring how fast and how often plant lineages became specialized for hummingbird pollination by acquiring 'pro bird' and 'anti bee' traits [ 5], requires clock-dated phylogenies for hummingbirds and the plant lineages adapted to them.

As a second step, with evolution of a more terrestrial life style, the right hand was no longer necessary for postural support and became specialized for object manipulation and bimanual coordination in higher primates.

As more genes were lost and the Y chromosome was reduced to a gene desert, the need for balancing expression with the autosomes became critical, such that the general MSL complex became specialized for the X.

On the other hand, duplicated genes can be retained in the genome after neofunctionalization – when a completely new function is acquired [ 26] – or subfunctionalization – when either the two genes become specialized in different tissues or at different developmental stages [ 27] or when the ancestral gene had several functions and the duplicates become specialized for certain of these functions.

The eukaryotic cell membrane was therefore able to become specialized for cell-to-cell communication and cell signaling.

In this prospective review we examine different approaches for exploring vocal communication processing, including pathways that may be, or become, specialized for conspecific utterances.

A feature that formerly had no function and was present for non-adaptive reasons (a "spandrel"; Gould and Lewontin 1979; Gould 1997, 2002) takes on a function and may become specialized for that function.

"It is much more common for words designating either sex to become specialized for application to males, as in the case of 'man,' which from meaning 'human' has come to mean in most uses 'male human.'".