Sentence examples for could have adaptive from inspiring English sources

This phenomenon of competitive exclusion within species could have adaptive or neutral (demographic) causes [ 92].

Since the degree of melanistic patterning influences heating rates, it has been hypothesized that the amount of black dorsal pigmentation could have adaptive value allowing more efficient thermoregulation in a cold climate [ 10].

The large-effect QTL that we detected in our populations would thus generate distinct pools of alleles in the F2 and subsequent generations, which could have adaptive significance due to variation in flowering time.

In the conclusion we speculate that the mechanisms uncovered could have an adaptive function.

Next, we investigated whether amino acid substitutions in the highly conserved OPT domain could have caused adaptive functional diversification.

We further investigated whether amino acid substitutions in the highly conserved Oxidored_FMN domain could have caused adaptive functional diversification.

Additionally, some evolutionary theorists find it hard to imagine that AD could have been adaptive because of low ability for autonomy and self-sufficiency seen in AD patients.

This may suggest that insulin resistance – as a response to oxidative stress – could have an adaptive function: by decreasing glucose uptake, insulin resistance limits excess energy supply and thereby diminishes mitochondrial ROS production (28– 30).

In this article, we analysed the lkt promoter among representatives of the five Mannheimia species in order to identify changes in cis-regulatory systems that could have catalysed adaptive evolution.

Although there are some elegant genetic experiments illustrating the subfunctionalization process (van Hoof 2005), they do not discount the possibility that subfunctionalization itself could have been adaptive, perhaps in subtle ways.

In the past, this phenomenon could have been adaptive because it could eventually lead to increased predation by felines; today, this decrease in vigilance is predominately linked to higher levels of car accidents in infected individuals (Flegr et al. 2002; Yereli et al. 2006; Kocazeybek et al. 2009).