Even birds, with evolutionary history that took a separate path, have brain functions and capacities convergent with their mammalian counterparts.
Both RNAi genotypes exhibit a similar reduction in CathD activity (the major lysosomal aspartyl protease; Figure 5A) or the number of LysoTracker-positive structures (Supplementary Figure S3 at http://www.asnneuro.org/an/006/an006e139add.htm) suggesting successful reduction in both the function and catabolic capacity of convergent AEL vesicles.
In addition to the substantial biological diversity among humans, our limited ability to reliably measure expression changes of small magnitude significantly reduces our capacity to obtain convergent sets of transcriptome data in postmortem brain.
Cooperation and acoustic control have evolved through convergent evolution, suggesting that these capacities are latently present in a wide range of species.
That Kiwi and mammals evolved to exploit these habitats quite independently provides evidence for convergent evolution in their sensory capacities that are tuned to a common set of perceptual challenges found in forest floor habitats at night and which cannot be met by the vertebrate visual system.
The reliability, internal consistency, convergent and predictive validity, and prognostic capacity of the scale were assessed.
There are some remarkable convergent metabolic traits, in particular, the capacity for assimilating sulfate.
Based on these insights on parallel/convergent gene/pathway/function (capability)/phenotype evolution [11, 14, 16], kidney cancer development may be better visualized as a braided river with the capacity to diverge and converge rather than an ever-branching tree.
Convergent evidence supports a role for anterior prefrontal cortex (PFC) in metacognition the capacity to evaluate cognitive processes but whether metacognition relies on global or domain-specific substrates is unknown.
The repeated appearance of the trait in many different families, lineages and regions [ 1, 5– 7] suggests a strong capacity for evolutionary responses to fire in plants [ 2], and hence potential for convergent evolution.
Recently, Schulz and colleagues [ 44] examined the convergent validity of emotional and non-emotional go/no-go tasks and concluded that, together, they offer "moderate capacity" for probing the neuropsychological construct of behavioural inhibition.
