Unlike most motel swimming pools in this kind of story, the one here is properly filled, functional and in fact rather inviting.
Our data suggest that the male-biased aphid slimfast paralogs diverged from their ancestral function to fill a functional role in males.
The dramatic decline that we observed in FRic following conversion of forest to oil palm indicates that the loss of forest species (Fig. 3) was not counterbalanced by the addition of new, disturbance-tolerant species that could either fill vacant functional niches or occupy different functional roles (Table 3; Fig. 3, Supporting Information Figs S1 and S2a,d).
Microorganisms fill essential functional roles in all of Earth's ecosystems yet our understanding of microbial abundance, distribution, and metabolism remains surprisingly limited.
Something, something mental and, indeed, quasi-perceptual, is needed to fill the functional role that images played in the traditional psychology of thinking.
More uniquely, our results demonstrate that ecosystem properties are stabilized against top-down perturbations by diverse grazer assemblages (Figs. 1, 5), likely because grazers fill different functional roles [3], [70].
Overall, these data corroborate previous studies showing that grazing impacts are strong in seagrass habitats, that grazer species fill different functional roles, and that grazer identity can influence primary producer community composition [68], [69].
By this mechanism, the results presented here suggest that PIPKIγ_i4 and PIPKIγ_i5 may fill specific functional roles within the nucleus and endosomal transport system respectively.
A single uORF may not necessarily be conserved in terms of exact sequence, length or relative position with respect to either the transcriptional or translational start, yet might still fill its functional role.
Although the majority of Hawaii's native plants require bird-mediated seed dispersal, only one native frugivore, Omao (Myadestes obscurus), persists in sufficient numbers to fill this functional role.
