UV sensitivity may have advantages in the dim, blue light shifted environment experienced by submerged marine mammals.
The back story — and the current one — are hazy, but apparently Heather's mom (Radha Mitchell) was lost to Silent Hill, a town-dreamscape of shifting environments, and now Dad has been spirited away and Heather must rescue him.
The approach presented here can be further applied to spatially prioritize conservation goals in the face of shifting environments and climates, allowing dynamic conservation planning at multiple spatial scales.
"People would like to make devices that can move in complex, unstable, shifting environments," Goldman said.
Adaptation to shifting environments is often accompanied by acquisition of new genes and loss of others 47, 101.
Thus, in constantly shifting environments, special behavioural adaptations can be explained by the influences of previous conditions.
Utility lies in their ability to throw light on the behaviour of mutation/selection systems in shifting environments and to argue they occur in the maintenance of sex.
However, given the potential role of HGT in allowing organisms to explore new resources and niches 47, 48, 101, 104, foreign genes with novel functions could be fixed more frequently in recipients under resource limitation or in shifting environments.
Recent studies in A. thaliana have shown that HSP90 contributes to phenotypic variation and plays a role in developmental plasticity by buffering or releasing variation under shifting environments (Queitsch et al. 2002; Sangster et al. 2007, 2008).
This isn't the first time that Fibria has had to adapt to a shifting environment.
Backed by chants and pop songs, Ms. Garfield and Ms. Omagbemi match wills in this shifting environment.
