The irregularities of most distribution patterns are simplified in the case of life forms dependent upon relatively restricted habitats, like that of intertidal mollusks, which have an almost linear distribution along rocky seacoasts.
From there, demography is destiny: a ballooning cohort of retirees will be dependent upon a relatively stable working-age population.
If the subsequent extraordinary complexity of lupus-specific humoral autoimmunity is dependent upon these relatively simple beginnings, then epitope spreading, as previously shown in animal models [16], [18], [20] [22] and in man [17], [18], [20], is a critical process for lupus autoimmune development and maturation.
These lizards are habitat specialists, dependent upon a relatively scarce and highly fragmented set of highland swamps [ 11, 31, 32].
The reckless contrarian approach is dependent upon the climate being relatively insensitive to the increased greenhouse effect, which requires that something offset all of these warming feedbacks.
Young monotremes hatch in a relatively early stage of development and are dependent upon the parent (altricial).
At a first glance this association may seem relatively obvious; copying a line is clearly dependent upon the ability to look at the same line while drawing, just as tracking a moving object smoothly depends upon the same ability.
The magnetic properties were found to be dependent upon the NP size but relatively insensitive to the morphology of the nanostructured Si host.
By contrast, mammalian inhibin is a relatively weaker antagonist of activin signaling that is dependent upon betaglycan as a co-receptor (Fig. 5C).
To what extent the results we observed are dependent upon the priming having taking place relatively early in life is unclear, though a number of studies suggest that early life is a particularly sensitive stage [ 3, 4].
