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Although O. latipes can adapt to varying salinity environments to some degree, the adaptive capacity of O. latipes is lower than that of O. melastigma, which can thrive in water of varying salinity ranging from 0 to 35 ppt [ 1 ].
While indigenous communities in Australia and the Arctic have a significant degree of adaptive capacity to climate-related health risks, non-climatic stresses such as land dispossession, poverty and globalization impair their adaptive capacity.
Studies of the lamprey's immune system in the 1960s and '70s revealed that it has some degree of adaptive immunity, tailoring its immune response to fend off pathogens it has never encountered.
Having established the connection between watches and watchmakers, Paley begins his third chapter by arguing that the principle applies equally to living organisms and their components—or indeed, more so, given that their degree of adaptive complexity is vastly greater.
The central problem with using conspicuous polymorphisms for investigating the relative roles of the variety of different evolutionary forces is that it is not an unbiased sample of genetic diversity with respect to either degree of adaptive function or amount of genetic variation.
To avoid any misconception, the instructor could easily lead discussion by adding in one or two species which haven't undergone the same degree of adaptive radiation as those generated by the class (in Fig. 1b, illustrated by N1 and N2).
Also absent from these genomes are the hallmarks of selection for efficiency at the translational level, as these species have moderate numbers of tRNA genes (average 52) and a moderate degree of adaptive bias in codon usage [5].
This emphasizes that taxonomic relatedness of taxa (i.e., within the phylum Echinodermata) does not necessarily translate into ecological similarity, especially in a phylum exhibiting the large degree of adaptive radiation as in echinoderms.
