Sentence examples for becomes specialized for from inspiring English sources
Dehaene (2005) proposed that when a child learns to read this region of the brain is redeployed; its normal role is object recognition, but it becomes specialized for recognizing letters and words as well.
This sialomucin polypeptide is expressed on all leucocytes but becomes specialized for selectin recognition on neutrophils and monocytes.
Subfunctionalization of duplicated enzymes might occur at the level of gene expression leading, e.g., to tissue-specific expression ([ 56] and references therein) or at the protein level, when a duplicate becomes specialized for a certain substrate [ 64].
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.
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.
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.'".
Over evolutionary time, the horse has developed increased speed and its musculature has become specialized for efficient strides [ 58, 59].
For example, this may be the case when duplicated pathway components become specialized for sister cell types derived from a common evolutionary precursor (Arendt 2008).
