Many organisms of conservation concern have complex life histories and considerable scope for adaptive plasticity and dispersal.
Thus there is little scope for adaptive changes in beta cell apoptosis to increase beta cell mass during pregnancy.
Amplification of an, initially, low-efficiency enzyme consequently broadens the scope for adaptive mutations to arise in the enzymatic function in any of the gene duplicates.
In these cases, evolution did not appear to be adaptive, though there may have been scope for adaptive evolution if experiments had been longer or started with higher standing genetic variation in fitness.
By addressing these questions in individuals with congenital or acquired hand absence we hope to shed light on the scope for adaptive plasticity in the adult human brain, thereby providing important information for informing future neurorehabilitation strategies.
Cell and molecular data indicate there is substantial scope for adaptive plasticity in RBC preference, but variation in this trait is yet to be integrated into an evolutionary framework.
On the one hand, this omission seems reasonable given that the scope for adaptive movement of genes onto the W (and Y-chromosome) might be curtailed given this chromosome lacks recombination [ 35].
Whence descent with adaptive modification, i.e., evolution.
This strategy allows considerable scope for ligand modification and thus might lead to the design of new, efficient, and practical catalysts for the copolymerization of epoxides with CO2.
It may be that, despite hypertension being prevalent in RA, there is still scope for further modification through the actions of GCs.
Extinction of an acquired conditioned response is recognized as an important step in the adaptive modification of behavior in a changing environment [for review, 25].
