Sentence examples for climatic adaptation from inspiring English sources

We known that D. melanogaster is a species of Afrotropical origin, and that climatic adaptation has occurred from tropical towards temperate climates [ 43].

Additionally, adaptive selection may be important [ 12] with climatic adaptation acting as an influential factor in mtDNA geographic distribution [ 13- 15], although some have disputed the climate hypothesis [ 8, 16, 17].

Pooideae lineage (from now on referred to as cold tolerant grasses) adaptation to cold climates makes grasses an interesting model system for studying climatic adaptation at the physiological and molecular level.

Climatic adaptation, in physical anthropology, the genetic adaptation of human beings to different environmental conditions.

Puerto Rican Tody is a heterotherm, and exhibits climatic adaptation in basal metabolic rate and body size in different areas of its range (Merola-Zwartjes and Ligon 2000).

Clearly, there is a divergence of opinions about the sustainability of the pastoral way of life and its corresponding contribution towards climatic adaptation in the drylands regions of Africa.

Even though some of the dwellings have few differences depending on the region they belong to, they do not reflect climatic adaptations.

Finally, the National Plant Germplasm System, the Department of Agriculture's national reserve of crop seeds, should be charged with evaluating hundreds of thousands of seed collections for drought and heat tolerance, as well as other climatic adaptations — and given the financing to do so.

Establishment of biological control agents in colder climates (i.e., in Canada) than their area of origin (Myers and Sabath 1980; Murray 1982; Harris 1984) suggests that climatic adaptations may have happened in other agents as well.

For example, the utility of the currently widely used practice of climate matching between the collection and release area of agents should be reevaluated in light of the likelihood of post-introduction climatic adaptations.

In order to understand how the genetic context of P. w. bulomachus populations might have adapted to harsher highland environments, we matched our annotated contigs with 329 candidate genes for high-elevation [ 5] and climatic adaptations [ 21].