Sentence examples for integration of alien from inspiring English sources
This indeed facilitates the integration of alien plants and alien pollinators/dispersers into the native pollination/disperser networks (Stouffer et al. 2014; Traveset and Richardson 2014).
The degree of nestedness has been found to increase with the integration of alien species (Padrón et al. 2009; Santos et al. 2012); this is because aliens tend to be generalist species and/or are linked to generalist species (Aizen et al. 2008; Traveset et al. 2013).
The study of native-alien mutualisms at community level and within the framework of ecological networks is promising as it provides new insights into the process of integration of aliens alongside their impact on the native communities, and it may be used to improve our predictions about effects of biological invasions.
Mostly based on previous information, we make the following predictions: The integration of an alien plant into a pollination network is mediated by the most generalist (native or alien) pollinators [1], [3], [7], [13] and Opuntia interacts most frequently with generalist insects (super-generalists sensu [1]).
In bacteria, homologous recombination through transformation or conjugation allows for the integration of homologous alien DNA into a host genome (Errington et al., 2001).
All these systems contain two universal genes: cas1, a metal-dependent DNAse with no sequence specificity that could be involved in the integration of the alien DNA (spacer) into CRISPR cassettes [ 21, 22], and cas2, a metal-dependent endoribonuclease, that also appears to be involved in the spacer acquisition stage [ 23].
These highly connected species tend to be endemic, and seem to be the most likely promoters of alien integration [1], [13].
The sharing of obligations at the core of European integration remains alien to people who see "Europe" as a distant and expensive abstraction.
GETTING rid of alien invaders is hard.
A little human skin and a lot of alien tentacles.
