Sentence examples for thermal adaptations from inspiring English sources

However, few studies have tested whether the pigmentation clines observed in nature and explained as thermal adaptations are genetically based as assumed by the adaptive hypothesis (but see e.g. [ 30, 32, 33]).

Such a journey demands impressive swimming and navigational powers, but for any turtle to flourish in the cold Grand Banks waters from June to October requires more — an elaborate combination of thermal adaptations (high metabolic rate, two kinds of fat, countercurrent heat-exchange mechanisms, and others) not usually associated with reptiles.

The results indicate that participants' acceptable range of thermal comfort leads to substantial changes in overall park attendance during different seasons, whereas characteristics of thermal adaptations influence the individual differences of utilization in various ways within diverse spaces.

Such knowledge is critical to understanding the evolution of thermal adaptations in primates and for comparative evaluation of humans' unique thermal adaptations.

For traits with significant heritability, thermal adaptations between both sexual and asexual generations of the animal host and its algal symbiont will occur at different temporal scales due to the fundamentally different life histories of the two partners.

Thus while we cannot rule out the role of other traits that are not preserved in the fossil record (e.g. differences in metabolic rates, thermal adaptations, or larval durations), differential changes in the biotic or physical environments are more likely to have caused the difference in the phylogenetic patterns of polar extinctions.

Mechanisms of thermal adaptation in bacteria, blueprints for survival.

Rowan, R. Coral bleaching - Thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts.

Rowan, R. Thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts.

Haney, P. J. et al. Thermal adaptation analyzed by comparison of protein sequences from mesophilic and extremely thermophilic Methanococcus species.

The thermal adaptation behaviour of the elderly exhibited seasonal differences.