Sentence examples for look for adaptation from inspiring English sources

A two-tailed Student's t test was performed to look for adaptation differences between control subjects and presymptomatic gene SCA2 carriers.

For example, it could be true that most traits are adaptations that can be explained by invoking no more than natural selection (the first flavor) but still be false that it is most fruitful to look first for adaptation (the third flavor).

The third flavor, "methodological" adaptationism, is the view that looking first for adaptation via natural selection is the most efficient approach when trying to understand the evolution of any given trait.

Godfrey-Smith (2001, page 337) defined methodological adaptationism in this way: "The best way for scientists to approach biological systems is to look for features of adaptation and good design.

Flajnik says it will be fascinating to look for similar immune adaptations in fish that share cod's environment.

And in my view they would go in for more adaptation measures, so we must be looking at more technology for adaptation.

To look for evidence of molecular adaptation, coding sequences were compared to calculate the ratio of non-synonymous (dN) to synonymous (dS) nucleotide substitution rates [ 43].

Both are highly uncertain given our inability to understand fully the science of change, to comprehend the links between global change and local impact, to account for adaptation, and to look many decades into the future with any clarity.

To look for genes involved in altitude adaptation in a large herbivore, this study explored genome differentiation between a feral population of Andean horses introduced by the Spanish in the 1500s to the high Andes and their Iberian breed relatives.

Most current methods are fundamentally limited in their ability to detect polygenic adaptation because they look for signatures of selection at individual loci, rather than the combined contributions of multiple loci (Pritchard et al. 2010; Le Corre and Kremer 2012).

If there had been more money for adaptation [to climate change], we would not be looking for money for loss and damage.