They can be broadly divided into rapidly adapting (RA) and slowly adapting (SA) mechanoreceptors based on their adaptation properties to sustained mechanical stimuli (Fleming and Luo, 2013).
The comK prophage may represent a rapid adaptation island that enables L. monocytogenes to rapidly adapt to and form biofilms in specific environmental niches (5 ).
Although both have fibrolytic capabilities, F. succinogenes decreased more rapidly during adaptation compared with B. fibrisolvens.
The potential for introduced species to rapidly evolve adaptations to newly encountered habitats can contribute critically to their success and spread as invasives.
Understanding how marine organisms respond to environmental changes and how rapidly new adaptations can evolve is key for predicting how ecosystems will respond to global environmental change in the future.
However, its asymptotic behavior is poor, as performance improvement saturates rapidly as the adaptation data increases.
Insight into the corresponding molecular mechanisms is developing rapidly and enables adaptation of the emerging principles to the creation of artificial binding proteins in vitro, using the techniques of combinatorial biotechnology.
When the environment changes more rapidly, the average adaptation of the population falls.
We hypothesize that CNVs are particularly relevant as a source of genetic variability that can be rapidly utilized for adaptation to stress in long-lived plants, including horticultural and forest tree species.
Divergent wing morphologies linked to different loci thus cause identical behavioral outcomes silence illustrating the power of selection to rapidly shape convergent adaptations from distinct genomic starting points.
