Sentences with phrase «environmental adaptation of»

Environmental adaptation of Acanthamoeba castellanii and Entamoeba histolytica at genome level as seen by comparative genomic analysis Victoria Shabardina, Tabea Kischka, Hanna Kmita, Yutaka Suzuki, Wojciech Makałowski International Journal of Biological Sciences 2018; 14:306 - 320

«Basically, most of our knowledge of what genes are important for environmental adaptation of trees has been educated guessing built on studies in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which is a member of the mustard family» said Amy Brunner, an associate professor of molecular genetics in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

«Basically, most of our knowledge of what genes are important for environmental adaptation of trees has been educated guessing built on studies in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which is a member of the mustard family» said Amy Brunner, associate professor of molecular genetics in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

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In CETA there is also a provision which says that the costs of pollution are borne by the polluter and requires Canada and Europe to prioritize trade in environmental goods and services related to renewable energy and co-operate on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

He says that the Christian view of bodily death is that it is entirely due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve, whereas we now know that death is a key driver of environmental adaptation in evolving life.

You are directly affected by * soemone * having knowledge of evolution when you consume all agricultural products (meat, veggies, fruits), go to the doctor, see a geneticist for counseling before having a child, take medication, or are impacted by poilicies concerning environmental change, which is a driver for forcing adaptation vs extinction.

Mitigation of environmental impact and adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the upcoming IDF Symposium on the Role of Dairy in Sustainable Diets, Seville, 1st and 2nd February 2018...

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

We have partnered with The Nature Conservancy in organizing the Mass Climate Change Adaptation Coalition, which is comprised of engineers, architects, planners, and conservation and environmental organizations working together to reduce the Commonwealth's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

This period is marked by fragility of the infant in terms of environmental adaptation to extreme hot and cold temperatures, sucking ability to have an effective feeding pattern, an established sleeping schedule, emotional security with the care takers and proper positioning when sleeping, feeding and burping.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

All funds collected under the previous version would go into the climate change mitigation and adaptation account of the state Environmental Protection Fund.

In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures.

She notes that corporate leaders, who she considers one of her main audiences, may not have extensive knowledge about the importance of climate adaptation, yet they are often open to problem - solving and exploring creative solutions to environmental problems, conserving resources, and protecting infrastructure and people.

The study also indicates that adaptation to a certain stable salinity may come at the cost of a poorer ability to cope with temporal environmental change.

If macroevolution really is an extrapolation of natural selection and adaptation, we would expect to see environmental change driving evolutionary change.

«To balance funding between the backlog and climate adaptation, bridge managers will need robust data on collapse risk,» said lead author Madeleine M. Flint, an assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.

«Atypical development, then, might reflect an inability to adapt to an environmental challenge, or an earlier adaptation because of a negative environment.

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.

«The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality» by Dr Carlo Fezzi, Dr Amii Harwood, Prof Andrew Lovett and Prof Ian Bateman is published in the March edition of Nature Climate Change.

«This paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of human environmental adaptation,» says Toomas Kivisild, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the study.

We contend that the rate of adaptation might also increase to match that of environmental degradation by carefully selecting coral populations from extreme environments and introducing them to areas that are only now beginning to experience such extremes.

What would amount to ex-situ conservation for the moved populations, could amount to in - situ conservation of the recipient populations, if the new genetic material assists in adaptation to higher environmental extremes.

Likai Mao, the project manager of BGI, said, «We found lots of loci could be related with environmental adaptation.

These coral populations provide important information about the present limits of adaptability and could also help to either speed up adaptation in populations that have yet to experience such extremes, or be used to repopulate reef areas that have recently been denuded due to unprecedented environmental extremes.

«Genome of Leishmania reveals how this parasite adapts to environmental changes: Scientists demonstrate that Leishmania adaptation results from frequent and reversible chromosomal amplifications.»

In addition, a flexible pool of microbes — members of which can be exchanged with similar microbes in the environment — is available to assist our survival and adaptation in the face of environmental changes.

The study, «Ecological genomics meets community - level modeling of biodiversity: mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the Universitenvironmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the UniversitEnvironmental Science and Steven Keller of the University of Vermont.

«Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic - type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance,» points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid.

The environmental state of the coastal sea, adaptation to climate change and alternatives to conventional fuels — the current issue delves into important topics concerning the future.

Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution Fumagalli, M., M. Sironi, U. Pozzoli, A. Ferrer - Admettla et al. 2011.

2012 (8/1/12 — 7/31/2014) USDA NIFA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Grant: Adaptation of novel Aspergillus flavus genotypes to changing environmental conditions and the role of genome plasticity in modulating toxicity.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

We have a climate change adaptation task force shared by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

Physiological / biochemical / genetic adaptations of marine invertebrates, including early life history stages, to environmental stress.

Manuscripts typical of this section would describe experiments generating and analyzing lists of genes and studies of how those genes combine to regulate: differentiation of a particular cell type; cellular, tissue, or organ response to toxic / pathogenic agents; adaptation to environmental stresses.

The researchers were also able to demonstrate genetic changes in genes that are involved in the immune system, that regulates the structure of muscle and UV sensitivity, which may be adaptations to particular environmental conditions.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

He has published in numerous social science and environmental science journals on topics of land and water management, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, residential development, and urban resilience.

The entrepreneur and speaker is on a mission to help individuals and organizations cultivate the personal practices, workflow adaptations, and environmental / cultural shifts needed to become more agile and innovative in the face of uncertainty with a greater sense of ease.

Due to tremendous variations in climate, indigenous food supplies, environmental conditions and the principles of evolution, adaptation, and heredity, different cultural and ethnic groups, over a period of many centuries, developed distinctly different kinds of dietary requirements...»

Nutritional and Botanical Interventions to Assist with the Adaptation to Stress Alternative Medicine Review 1999 (Aug); 4 (4): 249 — 265 ~ FULL TEXT Prolonged stress, whether a result of mental / emotional upset or due to physical factors such as malnutrition, surgery, chemical exposure, excessive exercise, sleep deprivation, or a host of other environmental causes, results in predictable systemic effects.

Nutritional and Botanical Interventions to Assist With the Adaptation to Stress Alternative Medicine Review 1999 (Aug); 4 (4): 249 — 265 ~ FULL TEXT Prolonged stress, whether a result of mental / emotional upset or due to physical factors such as malnutrition, surgery, chemical exposure, excessive exercise, sleep deprivation, or a host of other environmental causes, results in predictable systemic effects.

From the creators of Despicable Me comes the animated feature film adaptation of Dr. Seuss» The Lorax, a beloved cautionary tale of environmental conservation wrapped up in a colorful children's story.

Early in Alex Garland's adaptation of Annihilation, the five women sent to explore the environmental disaster zone known as the Shimmer wake to discover that they've lost time.

Beau Travail (1999) is examined in terms of the production's origins, the influence of its real - world setting's extreme environmental conditions, and the inspiration that shaped the movie as an adaptation.