Therefore, the panorama analysis supported that influenza viruses lost their adaptability in birds while they have become adapted to mammalian hosts [1].
Here the process of adaptation is driven by genetic variations among individuals that become adapted to that is, have greater success in a specific environmental context.
In any case, the results indicate that Mt. Hood beetles have become adapted to this environment or are in the process of adaptation as they do not perform quite as well as Swiss beetles (Fig. 3).
Many generations of seed have been bred in, and become adapted to, these circumstances.
As organisms become adapted to their environments through their habits, modifications occur.
The gills have gradually become adapted as filtering devices called ctenidia.
The viruses "have the potential to become adapted to mammals and possibly cause a human pandemic," he added.
Some, however, have become adapted to totally aquatic habitats; others have become adapted to alternately wet and dry environments by growing during wet periods and becoming dormant during dry intervals.
Tissues of deep-sea fishes must have become adapted to such pressure effects, which have been little studied thus far.
In the course of evolution the duration of gestation has become adapted to the needs of the species.
The sculpins in Lake Baikal have become adapted to exploit all of the living space offered by this inland sea.
