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Behaviours that reduce an animal's exposure to infectious parasites, from hiring cleaner fish to hiding dead corpses, probably evolved to combat the deadly pressure of disease, just as animals evolved camouflage to escape being gobbled up by toothy predators.
It's short for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats": repetitive stretches of DNA that bacteria have evolved to combat predatory viruses by slicing up the viral genomes.
This also documents a unique strategy that the parasite evolved to combat regulatory RNA function in host cells.
Nutrient-sensing signals and their related intracellular machinery have evolved to combat prolonged periods of starvation in mammals; and these systems are conserved in the kidney.
Unique inflammatory responses have evolved to combat fungi growing along epithelial surfaces.
This specificity and adaptability support the hypothesis that PLE is not a general phage defense mechanism, but an evolved, highly attuned, and specific response evolved to combat continued predation by ICP1.
This behavior likely evolved to combat starvation, as a bat cannot survive more than three nights without feeding.
The origin of β-lactamases is presumably ancient and their development evolved to combat natural β-lactams.
Despite the many pathways to deterioration, there are a number of effective preservation methods that have evolved to combat spoilage.
