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This analysis, however, revealed that KIM 10+ and to a lesser extent KIM D27, encode a highly variable region within a putative invasin gene (y3040; Figure 2), which may confer adaptation to different hosts, or immune reactions.

Genes that may confer adaptation capabilities such as type I secretion systems and stress tolerance were also identified (Additional file 1: Table S6).

These GIs could be especially important for bacterial adaptation to the endophytic lifestyle and may confer adaptation advantages to G. diazotrophicus in comparison with other microbes that colonize the same niche.

In the process of the development of an HCC lesion, increased RAGE expression by inflamed hepatocytes may confer adaptation to an advanced hypoxic environment during remodeling and carcinogenesis with accelerated cell proliferation.

Indeed, many Aquificae genes, particularly those with metabolic functions, are related to the Archaea, particularly the Euryarchaeota, and were likely acquisitions enabling differing strategies for ecological adaptation, such as the bd-type complex IV of oxidative phosphorylation, which may confer adaptation to low oxygen concentrations.

There are three mechanisms through which the microbial gene pool may confer adaptation to the holobiont (Zilber-Rosenberg and Rosenberg 2008), (i) changes in microbial composition by differential proliferation within a host (ii) changes in microbial composition by acquisition of new symbiont types from outside and (iii) adaptation of microbial populations of the same species within hosts.

Nevertheless, a subset may confer adaptive traits.

In addition, cells may not have evolved an attractor state to every environmental condition, yet some may confer better adaptation than others.

This may confer insect adaptation to changes in the environment.

It proposed that environmental conditions trigger non-specific mutations which confer adaptation to the stress-inducing factors [ 59].

Bintje, previously shown in French populations (Montarry et al. 2008), might also confer adaptation to some of its offspring.