Sentence examples for evolved to exploit from inspiring English sources

But M. depressus has evolved to exploit the bromeliad pools, and as far as anyone knows, they do so exclusively.

Elephants and rhinos are ecological engineers, creating conditions that hundreds of other species have evolved to exploit.

"What this is saying is that [seabirds] have evolved to exploit average to above-average feeding conditions," co-author Ian Boyd told Mongabay in 2012.

As habitats change, scientists are asking whether insects, migratory songbirds, caribou and other animals that have evolved to exploit the tundra environment will adapt.

In a study published this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they propose that this plethora of counterfeit patterns has evolved to exploit birds' innate instinct to avoid potential predators.

Although the diversity of life-forms observed in modern oceans did not appear until much later, during the Precambrian (about 4.6 billion to 542 million years ago) many kinds of bacteria, algae, protozoa, and primitive metazoa evolved to exploit the early marine habitats of the world.

As cheaters evolve to exploit a mutualism, they can cause the symbiotic relationship itself to break down unless new ways of thwarting the pretenders evolve within the host population.

"Cells have been evolving to exploit this apparently chaotic organization to efficiently store the genetic information and use it for their function," says Marco Di Stefano, a biophysicist now at the National Centre for Genomic Analysis in Barcelona, Spain.

Large dinosaurs proliferated as very large sizes made them super efficient as herbivores (and naturally large carnivores would evolve to exploit them).

Because the cells evolve to exploit the available resources, there is not a precise mapping of parameter values to available resource heterogeneity in the model.

Furthermore, infection of Duffy-negative patients in Madagascar suggests that this parasite is evolving to exploit alternative invasion pathways, posing new threats to previously resistant human populations [ 4].