The study, published last week in the journal Science, is a rare look at the complete process of what evolutionary biologists call character displacement, the change in a trait responsible for exploiting food or other resources in response to competition for the resources.
To identify if phytohormones were involved in response to competition, we searched for significant enrichment of hormone-responsive genes obtained from the literature [ 13- 15].
He rejected claims he was announcing his position in response to competition from Ukip.
Now a fashion company, its response to competition was still more incremental variations.
An Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Kerris, said the price cut at iTunes was not in response to competition.
Dr. Larsen said that suggests the beetle's predatory behavior may have evolved rapidly in response to competition for food.
"If you see this increased competition for jobs, the immediate response to competition is lower prices and that's lower wage rates".
There's evidence that European manufacturers became more innovative in response to competition from China, for example, but also that Canadian manufacturers became less innovative.
Now Groupon is changing its model in response to competition and critics who say deals are too few and the cost is too high.
The company had raised prices on detergents and diapers in Europe last year, but it said yesterday that it was forced to cut them late last year in response to competition.
A study by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant of Princeton University shows the rapid evolution of beak size in one of the finches in response to competition.
