Sentence examples for facultative to from inspiring English sources

Biotrophic lifestyle includes a continuum from facultative to obligate states (Kemen and Jones 2012; Spanu 2012).

The clearest change can be observed in the ycf2 gene, which has an unknown function, and is associated with the evolutionary shift from facultative to obligate parasitism.

Skin will darken when exposed to ultraviolet ray due to facultative pigmentation, but when the stimulus, ie, ultraviolet ray greatly decrease; the process will switch back from facultative to constitutive pigmentation.

In the study by Parter et al. [ 6], the category "host associated" in the classification from NCBI was further refined into "obligate" and "facultative" to differentiate bacteria that are able to survive without the host from those that cannot.

S. symbiotica SCt-VLC could represent the very first stages of the settling down process from a facultative to a reduced obligate intracellular endosymbiont, not having yet experienced the massive losses leading to a deeply rooted co-obligate endosymbiosis as witnessed in the symbiotic system of C. cedri.

When ancestral humans moved out of the African forest and onto the savannah during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene, they made a rapid transition from herbivory to facultative carnivory to active predation (Jurmain et al. 2005; Leakey and Lewin 2000; Lewin 1987).

Notably, 72.1% of the genes with unknown function are unique to the two diatoms and 44.3% are unique to P. tricornutum (i.e., not found in T. pseudonana genome or in the 21 other eukaryotic full-genome species), and could correspond to diatom genes involved in response to silicic acid, or to the facultative adaptation to silicic acid, respectively.

Analysis of plastid gene expression has shown that the relative plastid transcript levels in C. reflexa resemble to a high degree those of other parasitic plants [ 11] so that a facultative adaptation to the parasitic lifestyle has to be proposed.

According to our model, the overt resistance of facultative anaerobes to NO reflects the ability of these microbes to generate energy by switching from oxidative phosphorylation heavily dependent on RNS-modifiable dehydratases to fermentative pathways resilient to nitrosative stress.

Accordingly, the potential capacity of M. luminyensis to fix N2 could reflect an adaptation to soil or sediment conditions and a facultative association to digestive tracts.

In addition to the experimental advantages of C. elegans, its mode of reproduction with selfing hermaphrodites and facultative outcrossing to males makes it a favorable system to study the regulation of outcrossing and its evolutionary consequences.