Sentence examples for facultative resources from inspiring English sources

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Of particular interest is variation in immune response, either because of limited resources or facultative systems that adapt the response to the current inner and outer situation (Schmid-Hempel 2003).

As growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions requires substantial readjustment of metabolic fluxes, facultative bacteria need to invest more resources for adaptation to these growth conditions than the non-facultative bacteria.

Plastic responses may involve facultative changes in a single trait, whole suites of life history, behaviours, or resource allocation strategies (Stearns 1992; Pigliucci 2001).

A subsequent analysis of data from 36 groups of baboons which incorporated the effects of local resource competition on birth sex ratios failed to demonstrate consistent evidence for facultative adjustment of birth sex ratios [6].

Modeling suggests that such facultative reversals to non-claustral behavior are likely to occur in cases of increased resource availability (Johnson, 2002; Brown and Bonhoeffer, 2003).

Our results provide general insight into the dynamics of gene expression in a facultative endosymbiont across different life cycle stages and sexes of an arthropod host, and provide a rich set of resources to further explore the functional basis of the Wolbachia-Drosophila symbiosis.

On the other hand, the allocation of energy and time to resource defence might only compensate for potential negative effects from permanent coral occupation (i.e., facultative corallivory, reduction of food/oxygen amount, toxic effects of skin mucus).

They inspire scientists like Mr. Matsil -- who sprinkles his conversation with terms like "facultative mutualism" and "heterotrophic aerobic microbes," to lyricism.

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Some bacteria extracted from a meteorite were facultative aerobes.