Sentence examples for evolutionary niche from inspiring English sources

That was his evolutionary niche.

The power of flight put birds into a new evolutionary niche, and more novel adaptations followed.

In a world of towering giants, some dinosaur groups shrank to fill a different evolutionary niche.

As Gottschall puts it, "Neverland is our evolutionary niche, our special habitat".

And the figs' specialized flowers, far from isolating them in an evolutionary niche, have allowed them to radiate throughout the natural world.

"People will think we're just crazy artists who are doing something wack," he said, when in fact W57 occupies a singular "evolutionary niche".

This model postulates that a diverse population of EHEC O26 has already circulated over a longer period of time in an evolutionary stable niche (source) and only few strains were able to adapt during the transfer into a new niche (sink) with positive and purifying selection (Chattopadhyay et al. 2007).

An alternative approach, framed within a newer paradigm from evolutionary biology, niche construction theory (NCT), provides a more powerful explanatory framework for the BSR wherever it occurred.

The oSVZ is an evolutionary new niche, especially well developed in primates, that contains complex lineages and a mosaic of precursors immunolabeled with markers typical of apical and basal radial glia cells (RGCs) (Betizeau et al., 2013; Hansen et al., 2013; Lui et al., 2011).

Even seemingly ideal habitats with a stable composition of few dominant species, for example microbial mats [ 21] or invertebrate bacterial symbioses [ 22], can be difficult to assemble when evolutionary micro-niche adaptations have led to large pan-genomes and thus to a low level of population clonality (see e.g. [ 23] for a discussion on sub-species fine-scale evolution and pan-genomes).

In these studies, the emphasis has been on evolutionary changes in niche dimensions or in ecological changes in the realized niche owing to changes in the biotic environment [61].