Sentence examples for phylogenetic adaptations from inspiring English sources

Second, we should distinguish between ontogenic and phylogenetic adaptations (Sober 2000, 86).

The adaptations of interest to evolutionary biologists are phylogenetic adaptations, which arise over evolutionary time and impact the fitness of the organism.

Thus, the phylogenetic development of adaptations depends on the age of the ecosystem, and also on the dominating plant families that colonized these ecosystems originally.

Continuous laboratory evolution has been historically used to study problems including antibiotic resistance, organismal adaptation, phylogenetic reconstruction, and host pathogen interactions, with more recent applications focusing on the rapid generation of proteins and nucleic acids with useful, tailor-made properties.

This underscores that the timing of leaf emergence underlies a balance between phylogenetic constraints and adaptation to specific environmental conditions that can be common between closely related species.

The fascinating natural history of obligate mutualistic symbioses, in which two completely different organisms live in a close and fully interdependent relationship, are increasingly unraveled by studies of extant adaptations and phylogenetic history [ 1- 3].

In the present study, we have chosen the nectar-feeding phyllostomids, a particularly notorious group in terms of dietary adaptations and phylogenetic position, to test the efficiency of MCA chromosomal probes as a tool for identifying homologous regions among species with highly rearranged karyotypes.

3: 180-191 4. Thornhill, R and Gangestad, S (1996b) Human female copulatory orgasm: a human adaptation or phylogenetic holdover.

We use phylogenetic hypotheses to understand adaptation and evolution in patellacean faunas around the world and through time.

Our analyses could facilitate understanding of the phylogenetic diversity and niche adaptation of this bacterium.

Alternatively, conservation of TAG expression may be more related to phylogenetic effects than functional adaptation (Oliveira et al., 2011).