Sentence examples for may represent adaptations from inspiring English sources

As reviewed by Thomas et al. [ 19], altered host phenotypes may represent adaptations or side effects without any adaptive causality.

Soil is a natural reservoir for this species; hence, genes induced under CF conditions relative to soil may represent adaptations that have occurred in clinical strains.

These changes may represent adaptations to altered functionality of PfCRT, a predicted member of drug/metabolite transporter superfamily found on the parasite food vacuole (FV) membrane.

Future work should further investigate links between age-related differences in these properties, which together may represent adaptations to physiological and lifestyle changes in older adults.

The reason for these elaborations is not known, though in light of our results, they may represent adaptations that allow for more efficient dispersal by specific insect species.

Finally, we have identified genes which may represent adaptations not hitherto associated with improved tolerance to abiotic stress.

These management strategies may represent adaptation to copy with the recurrent droughts.

We believe that this abnormal association may represent adaptation to the high metabolic demands of pregnancy and future studies during later trimesters planned for these women are expected to provide better explanation.

Because GST serves as a phase II enzyme in detoxifying xenobiotics and keeping intracellular redox balance in the presence of its substrates, the increase of GST activity in coke oven workers may represent adaptation or defense against the burden of mutagens and carcinogens in the human body.

First, these indirect benefits may outweigh any direct costs and mate preferences may therefore represent adaptations in females to gain these benefits.

Life history differences may also represent adaptations to contrasting mortality factors.