The finding, reported in the 15 June Current Biology, highlights how the genetic hard-wiring for one trait can be commandeered to create another over evolutionary time.
The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping.
But regardless whether of chondroitin or of chitin origin, an ancient chondroitinase enzyme sequence seems to have been commandeered to catalyze the cleavage of the new hyaluronan substrate.
Less powerful rockets used by weather forecasters were commandeered to take the men supplies.
That stopped the show because someone had to be commandeered to carve it.
One practice was interrupted when the players were commandeered to help lay the drainage pipes.
His popularity is universal, but his death was commandeered to mark a milestone in African-American history.
Other buildings around the city had to be commandeered to absorb the overflow from the castle itself.
CG: I understand that the AO rating has been commandeered by the porn industry to some extent, but is there a way of creating a new adult rating to distinguish between a game like Dungeon Siege II and a Grand Theft Auto.
One of the exhibition galleries seems to have been commandeered by a large ball composed of sticks knitted together.
