Sentence examples for generalist strategy from inspiring English sources

As expected, in the sloped environment, evolution favored a mixture of mostly droppers and collectors, but in the flatlands, where there is no advantage to dropping the block, the generalist strategy was more prevalent.

As seen in the video above, after 500 generations researchers saw the generalist strategy begin to emerge: navigate toward light, pick up block, navigate away from light, drop block, repeat.

The presence of all functional Chironomid groups at all decomposition stages may be related to a generalist strategy to obtain food, since most taxa in this group are omnivorous (Berg 1995; Galizzi et al. 2012) and consume a large amount of detritus (Henriques-Oliveira et al. 2003; Silveira et al. 2013; Saito and Fonseca-Gessner 2014).

In this case (Figure 5C), the evolution of host specificity in immune defense (i.e. adaptive immune system) occurs at the expense of allocation to a generalist strategy (i.e. innate immune system) [18].

A generalist strategy provides the pathogen with more opportunities for transmission and survival, but it is predicted that evolution would favour specialism, because pathogen-host co-evolution could result in functional trade-offs that would limit the generalist fitness in any one host [1], [31] [34].

If a generalist strategy involves the evolution of a general-purpose suite of genes that are necessary and sufficient to successfully parasitize a wide range of hosts, then such a trend could lead to a long-term stable generalist strategy.

Most species occupied typical or common habitats within the study area and exhibited generalist strategies typical of species in heterogeneous and disturbed habitats that undergo frequent change.

Although paleoenvironmental data suggest that the landscape of this region evolve gradually from mosaic of forest and open landscapes to diverse and densest forests, zooarchaeological analysis indicates a pattern of adaptive stability that persists throughout the Holocene, characterized by generalist strategies of subsistence focused mainly in forest resources.

Thus, specialization on a specific genotype does not pay in a heterogeneous or varying environment, enabling generalist strategies to dominate populations.

Based on the studies above, types of generalist strategies used by organisms in rapidly fluctuating environments might include broad physiological tolerance, short-term plasticity or developmental plasticity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02440.003 The contrast between habitat specialist and generalist strategies derives from ecological niche theory (Levins, 1968; Futuyma and Moreno, 1988).