Sentence examples similar to triggered evolution from inspiring English sources

Our results indicate that the apparent victory of coevolutionary arms race by one sex in terms of morphology may trigger evolution of a behavioral phenotype in the opposite sex.

In DEF-like genes of Poales, positive selection on the region mediating interactions with other proteins or DNA could have triggered the evolution of the regulatory mechanisms behind the development of grass-specific reproductive structures.

Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that human actions would have triggered divergent evolution in vertebrate populations, especially in those species with long generation times in which evolution is expected to proceed at a relatively slower pace than species with short generation times [ 17, 18].

FA triggered ethylene evolution from tomato leaves within 4 h of treatment.

Right now there's not enough information to decide whether animals created Snowball Earth, or Snowball Earth triggered animal evolution.

In 1953, Gibbon successfully closed an atrial septal defect, using his design of heart lung machine, and triggered the evolution of present-day cardiac surgery.

ScienceNOW reported this week that "snowball Earths" may have triggered animal evolution, a newly discovered monkey species is already critically endangered, hellish "super-Earths" may abound in the Milky Way, and bacteria that inhabit fruit flies help sway their choice of partners, among other stories.

The study "provides evidence that loss of regular dietary vitamin D as a result of the transition to a more strongly agricultural lifestyle may have triggered" the evolution of lighter skin, says Nina Jablonski, a leading skin color researcher at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Cellular metabolism, including osmoregulation, secretory processes, signal transduction, and ion-homeostasis triggered the evolution of ion-transporting proteins in the plasma membrane (Derst and Karschin 1998), a function later "exapted" (= new adaptive role) to electrical excitability and signaling (via hyper/de/polarization) and communication (via networking) among neurons.

In this report, we show that the morphology-dependent concealment of female genitalia in G. gracilicornis might have triggered the evolution of male behavioral traits, such as the post-mounting, pre-copulatory courtship signals produced as ripple waves on the water's surface.

It remains unclear what finally triggered the evolution to HUS.