Sentence examples similar to desiccation cycle from inspiring English sources

This is why I suggest that, in Bdelloids, the desiccation cycles would thus act in place of sexual reproduction to fight off the accumulation of deleterious recessive mutations.

During the desiccation cycles, however, bdelloids will scatter randomly to other locations, where the pathogens will not have followed them, and will then be able to resume their life cycle without the pathogens, at least for a while [ 138].

My interpretation of the observation that bdelloids are primarily founds in environments that are prone to regular desiccation rather than in permanently hydrated surroundings is that the desiccation cycles could act in place of sexual reproduction to fight off the accumulation of deleterious mutations.

In these environments, UV damage from intense sunlight and desiccation-rehydration cycles generate high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and damage DNA and proteins [ 2]. H. salinarum is highly resistant to ROS damage, withstanding many times what E. coli and other radiation-sensitive organisms can survive [ 3].

Compared with aquatic species, terrestrial species are water challenged and must undergo desiccation and rehydration cycles more often.

Lichens can endure frequent desiccation and wetting cycles and are able to survive in a dehydrated molecular dormant state for decades at a time.

The anhydrobiotic chironomid larvae presumably experience nuclear DNA fragmentation with each cycle of desiccation and rehydration, and must have overcome this threat efficiently to survive the drought season.

Since the length of the growing season is limited by the amount of moisture in the soil, selfers have a much narrower window of time to complete their life cycle before desiccation.

But given the bdelloid's individual prolificacy, repopulating their environment after a cycle of desiccation does presumably not represent a major challenge, whilst keeping their genome functional must be one !

It has been suggested that foreign genes might be incorporated into bdelloid genomes during cycles of desiccation and rehydration, during which DNA is broken and repaired [ 19– 219.

Therefore, bdelloids might make use of their ancestral tetraploid state and maintain alpha tubulin copies to perform specialist functions during cycles of desiccation [ 9].