Sentence examples for reciprocal adaptation from inspiring English sources

Consideration of complex geographic patterns of reciprocal adaptation has provided insight into new features of the coevolutionary process.

They personally discover, through the fate of their own card hands, the rapid rate of reciprocal adaptation and the potential for host-parasite interactions to maintain diversity.

Overall, despite previous evidence of reciprocal adaptation to these different environments, increased nonsexual fitness did not translate into higher mating success, indicating a lack of any alignment with natural selection of this component of male sexual fitness.

Fourth, achieving deeper degrees of consistency between CIB scenarios and numerical scenarios requires not only explicit and systematic model comparisons, but possibly also the reciprocal adaptation of the conceptual and numerical models.

If environmental factors have exactly the same effects on tube length and tongue length morphology, or even on other correlated body or floral traits, then tubes and tongues could correlate with each other without any reciprocal adaptation being involved in the process.

Specifically, the results are consistent with the idea that there are hot spots and cold spots across space; in hot spots, reciprocal selection and reciprocal adaptation is intense, while in cold spots, the interaction is less intense and perhaps swamped out by other factors.

By this view, the struggle between hosts and parasites is ongoing because adaptation, increasing the fitness of one species, necessarily reduces the fitness of the other, resulting in continual reciprocal adaptations and counter-adaptations just to maintain their fitness at its present level (Fig. 1).

These well-studied model systems for insect plant interactions demonstrate reciprocal adaptations and/or coevolutionary relationships between flower depth and insect proboscis length.

The reciprocal adaptations occurring between populations in parasitic or mutualistic relationships results in greater specificity and interdependence between species (Thompson 1994).

Although our results are indicative of reciprocal adaptations following selection on traits influencing relative fitness, it is not known at present what traits may be involved.

Selective pressure of various corolla tube lengths appear to have led to reciprocal adaptations of variations in proboscis lengths in nemestrinid flies (Anderson and Johnson, 2008; Pauw et al., 2009).