Among the conspicuous characteristics featuring its hyperthermophilic adaptation are overrepresentation of purine bases in protein coding sequences, higher GC-content in tRNA/rRNA sequences, distinct synonymous codon usage, enhanced usage of aromatic and positively charged residues, and decreased frequencies of polar uncharged residues, as compared to those in mesophilic organisms.
Taken together, these results suggest that some Aegean populations of male P. erhardii partition signals that are better tuned to conspecific vision than to avian predator vision, which may be complementary adaptations to enhance concealment of conspicuous sexual signals from predators.
The differences in phenotypic adaptations as an antipredator defense are conspicuous.
(In olden times, moralizing or sentimental cuts sometimes made sad endings happy — letting Lear and Cordelia live — and so on. History is thick with fiddling). Posner's approaches at the Folger can be so conspicuous that he thinks of them less as cuts than as adaptations; his "Comedy of Errors" last spring involved a long video opening about modern amateur players.
The conspicuous intraspecific proboscis length variations in long-proboscid flies are regarded as adaptations according to the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution (Thompson, 1994, 2005).
And this winter's most conspicuous winners on the West End include the delightful "Ladykillers," an adaptation of the 1955 Ealing Studios movie that churns tickling bubbles out of film noir menace, and a riotous revival of "Noises Off," Michael Frayn's great backstage farce, which finds an exhilarating precision in out-of-control chaos.
It is also possible that evolutionary adaptation processes regarding behaviour or habitat preference made the species more conspicuous.
M. kandleri, being a unique methane-producing archaeon known to date with dual adaptation to high temperature and high salinity, is marked with its conspicuous presence within the sulphur metabolising group instead of the group of methanogens [ 46, 48].
The myrmecochorous plant as a whole may also have specific adaptations; for example, cyclamen brings fruits and seeds within reach of ants by conspicuous coiling (shortening) of the flower stalk as soon as flowering is over.
