They're not just hermaphrodite; they're protandrous: capable of alternating their sex.
Biofilm formation and swarming motility are both surface-associated types of behavior and bacteria must be capable of alternating from one behavior to the other.
Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is a large, dsDNA virus that is capable of alternating between two programs of gene expression that lead to a productive or silent infection.
Many organisms are capable of alternating sexual and asexual reproduction throughout their life cycle, including protists, cnidarians, rotifers, crustaceans, insects, mosses, vascular plants and macro-algae [ 1].
GRN inference requires the development of integrative methods capable of using these alternate data as priors on the GRN structure.
A consequence of evolutionary recycling of protein-binding domains, network modules and their constitutive proteins are capable of combining in alternate configurations.
This is important because sufficient aptamer diversity must be maintained in the final pool in order to prevent the loss of aptamers capable of binding to alternate sites on the target protein as a result of "hot spot" selection bias.
For instance, three studies have failed to show any measurable inhibition of starch hydrolysis or significant weight loss in vivo, 155, 163– 165 suggesting either the existence of an alternate route capable of degrading starch or insufficient amounts of inhibitors reaching the substrate.
Prions are infectious proteins capable of replicating by forcing their alternate conformation (and, therefore, alternate function) on the normal physiological form of the protein (both having the same amino-acid sequence).
Coach John Tortorella told reporters in the morning that no other player had yet proved himself capable of claiming the other alternate post.
