The crest may have also functioned as a visual display device in addition: perhaps large and odd-shaped crests attracted mates.
The APGA asks its member gardens to meet five criteria: the collection of plants must be labeled; records of plants must be kept; the garden must be open to the public; the garden must function as an aesthetic display, educational display, or research site; and there must be at least one professional staff member.
Since the device uses an optical readout, it can also function as a fluidic display monitor, Dr. Quake said.
"Music evolved and continues to function as a courtship display, mostly broadcast by young males to attract females," Dr. Miller writes in "The Origins of Music," a collection of essays by him and others.
For one thing, the act of meandering across a room or courtyard can function as a sexual display, in the obvious ways: the man swaying his shoulders, walking tall; the woman swinging her hips, puffing out her chest.
If, as suggested above, male barks function as a sexual display as well as an alarm call, the longer bark duration could be a sexually selected trait.
In addition to displaying words and images on its exterior, the car offers an interior that functions as an electronic display that may reflect mood through color, light and pattern.
SAN FRANCISCO – As showcase games go, the tussle between U.S.C. and Cal on Thursday night functioned more as a display of the middling Pac-12.
Formerly a residence, Baburizza now functions as a museum, proudly displaying a private collection of early 20th-century European art.
Because polycystin-1 and polycystin-2 interact to form a receptor-channel complex that acts at an early step in a signaling pathway that controls kidney epithelial cell differentiation and proliferation, it was concluded that the primary cilium was functioning as a sensory antenna, displaying these two PKD proteins to the environment and relaying signals from them to the cell body.
