Sentence examples for to adapt populations from inspiring English sources

Thus, the number of copies of amylase genes may be selected to adapt populations to their traditional diet.

Another possible approach to addressing smoking among disadvantaged groups is to adapt population health-based methods.

Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman (1981) and Boyd and Richerson (1985) aimed to do the same for culture: to adapt population genetic models to be suitable for cultural change (see Mesoudi 2011, Ch 3 for an accessible overview of this work).

Specialized biotic interactions contribute to processes that structure communities [ 1] and adapt populations to local partners and environments [ 2, 3].

A population perturbed by bottlenecks behaves similarly to an adapting population, struggling to return to the optimized state.

It is concluded that local population mixtures can be used to develop locally adapted populations for low-input and diverse marginal environments using all the available heterogeneity found within the populations.

However, it proved possible to identify specifically adapted populations achieving high values for the trait at specific sites only, although some performed relatively well across several sites.

But to survive and to continue to adapt, small populations must maintain genetic diversity through reproductive connectivity.

However, none of these responses were sufficient to adapt these populations to predicted future conditions.

Therefore, conservation strategies based heavily on neutral genetic variation, with an under-emphasis on the distribution of non-neutral variation, risk detrimental impacts to locally adapted population segments and should be scrutinized (Pearman 2001; Schwartz et al. 2009).

The addition of novel variation can also boost the evolutionary potential of a population providing the genetic variation on which selection can act to adapt the population to novel environmental conditions (Lynch and Lande 1992; Swindell and Bouzat 2005).