In animals, the nervous system is the central site for processing sensory information and coordinates organism-wide responses to changing conditions.
And, again, whether the inner state of an organism does have the proper function of coordinating an organism with this or that particular feature of the environment (or some other) is wholly determined by the selection history of the organism-type, by the basis upon which ancestral organisms were selected over other organisms of the same type.
Characterising post-translational regulation of key transcriptional activators is crucial for understanding how cell division and differentiation are coordinated in developing organisms and cycling cells.
Circadian rhythms are near 24-hour endogenous oscillations in physiological processes found in many organisms, coordinated through transcription-translation networks with inherent time-delayed negative feedback [ 14- 16].
Each of these processes is spatiotemporally finely tuned and both are tightly coordinated to ensure organism homeostasis throughout life.
The carbon isotopic composition of an organism mainly reflects its dietary signature (DeNiro and Epstein 1978), and coordinated isotopic measurements of organisms provide a unique approach to describing the dietary habits of animals, a macroscale ecological phenomenon.
In addition to cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions, cell behaviour in multicellular organisms is coordinated by the passage of chemical or electrical signals between cells.
This may enable organisms highly coordinated adaptation to changing environments.
One of the outstanding questions in host/symbiont systems is how gene expression in the partner organisms is coordinated.
Transcription of the rDNA, a tandemly repeated gene and highly conserved across unicellular and multicellular organisms, is coordinated by many proteins, including oncogenes and tumor suppressors.
