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Adaptation and Exaptation: From Small Molecules to Feathers
Evolution works by adaptation and exaptation. At an organismal level, exaptation and adaptation are seen in the formation of organelles and the...
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Microbial Genomic Islands in Adaptation and Pathogenicity
This book elucidates the role of microbial genomic islands (GEIs) in genome stability, plasticity, evolutionary adaptation, and pathogenicity in the...
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Genetics and evolutionary insights from Solanaceae genome sequences
The availability of genome sequence resources and genomic information enables the functional characterization of genes in crop plants. These genes...
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Photostasis and photosynthetic adaptation to polar life
Photostasis is the light-dependent maintenance of energy balance associated with cellular homeostasis in photoautotrophs. We review evidence that...
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Microfluidics for adaptation of microorganisms to stress: design and application
AbstractMicrofluidic systems have fundamentally transformed the realm of adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) for microorganisms by offering...
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with wine fermentation and adaptation to nitrogen limitation in wild and domesticated yeast strains
For more than 20 years, Saccharomyces cerevisiae has served as a model organism for genetic studies and molecular biology, as well as a platform for...
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Genomics and adaptation in forest ecosystems
Rapid human-induced environmental changes like climate warming represent a challenge for forest ecosystems. Due to their biological complexity and...
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Evolutionary rescue can prevent rate-induced tip**
The transformation of ecosystems proceeds at unprecedented rates. Recent studies suggest that high rates of environmental change can cause rate-induced...
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Enzyme-mediated adaptation of herbivorous insects to host phytochemicals
AbstractThe review comprehensively explores factors influencing enzyme activities in insects and their implications in defense against toxicants. It...
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Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America
Phenology varies widely over space and time because of its sensitivity to climate. However, whether phenological variation is primarily generated by...
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Thermal adaptation in Lepidoptera under shifting environments: mechanisms, patterns, and consequences
Thermal adaptation is a key facet safeguarding organismal function among ectothermic organisms. In this era of rapidly changing environments,...
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Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters
Major evolutionary transitions (METs) across Earth’s biological history describe fusions of lower-level entities into higher-level individuals...
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Origin, variation, and selection of natural alleles controlling flowering and adaptation in wild and cultivated soybean
Soybean ( Glycine max ) is an economically important crop worldwide, serving as a major source of oil and protein for human consumption and animal...
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Molecular characterization of positively selected genes contributing aquatic adaptation in marine mammals
BackgroundMarine mammals, which have evolved independently into three distinct lineages, share common physiological features that contribute to their...
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Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species
Satellites are mobile genetic elements that are dependent upon the replication machinery of their helper viruses. Bacteriophages have provided many...
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Adaptation to Disturbance
Plants began to colonize land more than 400 million years ago. Since then, they have been exposed to fireFire, wind, drought, frost, floods,...
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When the “satisficing” is the new “fittest”: how a proscriptive definition of adaptation can change our view of cognition and culture
Since Darwin’s theory of evolution, adaptationism is frequently invoked to explain cognition and cultural processes. Adaptationism can be described...
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Chloroplast gene expression level is negatively correlated with evolutionary rates and selective pressure while positively with codon usage bias in Ophioglossum vulgatum L
BackgroundCharacterization of the key factors determining gene expression level has been of significant interest. Previous studies on the...
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Insertion sequence contributes to the evolution and environmental adaptation of Acidithiobacillus
BackgroundThe genus Acidithiobacillus has been widely concerned due to its superior survival and oxidation ability in acid mine drainage (AMD)....
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Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment
The operational harmony between living beings and their circumstances, their ever-changing environment, is a constitutive condition of their...