Sentence examples for delayed fitness from inspiring English sources

However, a perennial plant may receive direct, albeit delayed, fitness benefits from suppressing potential competitors, in which case solar tracking would not be an example of spite.

Note that empowerment can be considered to provide local and immediate feedback to the evolutionary dynamics — our present evaluation is based on the short-term value of empowerment rather than some longer-term delayed fitness measure such as the survival of the agent in the environment.

Simulation results have been evaluated in terms of HAP and Satellite utilization, bandwidth, end-to-end delay, fitness function and cost of the GA schemes.

A key point is that, if organisms can use environmental cues to predict population decline and consequentially delay reproduction, fitness can be enhanced even without increases in lifetime fecundity.

In parthenogenetic species, resistance can be delayed with refuges, fitness costs, and incomplete resistance, but incomplete resistance is more important than fitness costs (Crowder and Carrière 2009).

Ireland, a country yet to make a World Cup semi-final, will attempt to break their duck minus four key players and possibly a fifth after it was confirmed on Tuesday that Paul O'Connell's tournament and Test career were over, that Sean O'Brien had been banned for a week and that a decision on Jonathan Sexton's fitness could be delayed until just before kick-off against Argentina on Sunday.

If larger seeds are linked to delayed flowering time and reduced fitness on serpentine, we expected smaller seeds to be produced from progeny of maternal plants growing on serpentine soils.

In particular, TERT interventions based on adeno-associated vectors (AAV9-mTERT) at 1 or 2 years of age are able to re-activate telomerase activity in a wide range of tissues and have beneficial effects on different aspects of mouse health, including delayed osteoporosis, improved epithelial barrier fitness, improved metabolic function, and improved neuromuscular coordination.

— We were just driving around somewhat aimlessly when we encountered a group of US Marines recruits going through a grueling "delayed-entry" fitness program in a strip-mall parking lot.

In Columbian ground squirrels, individual fitness declined with the delayed emergences brought on by later snowmelt (Lane et al. 2012).

The fitness function is its totally delayed time.