Sentence examples for evolved to occupy from inspiring English sources
In each region different plant and animal species evolved to occupy the new seasonally dry habitats.
We traditionally think of life on Earth as being made up of complex and tightly-knit ecosystems like rainforests or coral reefs that are pristine, perfected and stable biological machines, in which every species has evolved to occupy a unique niche.
Microorganisms have evolved to occupy almost every conceivable ecological niche and energy-generating mechanism.
Many animals and plants have evolved to occupy specific geographical niches, such as islands or mountain lakes.
Pools and riffles are fundamental mesohabitat units where many lotic biota have evolved to occupy preferentially, and support diverse biological communities.
An ecosystem based on distantly related plants might be more productive than one based on closely related plants, they reasoned, since the distant relatives are more likely to have evolved to occupy distinct niches.
Thus multiple morphotypes may coexist within spatial niches in single populations [2], [7], [8], [9], and different morphotypes may evolve to occupy a given spatial niche in different populations [10], [11].
Fukami and colleagues [13] demonstrated that evolution in Pseudomonas communities systematically alters the community structure: a single colonist strain will evolve to occupy several niches, excluding future colonizing strains and changing community structure when compared to a community into which several strains are introduced simultaneously.
Animals in a particular ecosystem evolve to occupy different frequencies in the sonic spectrum, like instruments in a symphony orchestra.
Here we have characterized the functional and contextual divergence of expanded FFRP family members in H. salinarum NRC-1 to understand how TF homologs evolve to occupy different niches.
Both glycolysis and amino acid catabolism are differentially regulated in C. difficile suggesting a possible mechanism for how these pathways have evolved to better occupy the respective niche for both C. sordellii and C. difficile [ 41].
