Sentences with phrase «adapt to a new environment in»

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

The researchers allowed different groups of flies to adapt to a new environment in the lab for 13 generations.

But because these human strains frequently mutate to adapt to their new environment in eggs, the resulting vaccine is often an imperfect match to the actual virus that it is supposed to protect against.

Many cats will adapt to their new environment in a short time, which should make their individual blood glucose tests more reliable.

Not exact matches

«With an ever - changing business environment, our economic plan aims to help our businesses adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness of Quebec to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.

Yet when it is done with intention and self - awareness, breaking from regular routines can be a powerful way to stimulate new thinking, break bad habits, adapt better to change, and be more collaborative in a team environment.

But as precipitous market moves in early February and late March suggested a return to more historically normal levels of volatility, the question for investors now is how to adapt their approach to the new environment.»

The combination of low levels of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.

The superiority of a living over an inanimate nexus of occasions is that it does not refuse so much of the novelty in its environment, but adapts it to itself by a massive imposition of new conceptual feeling, thus transforming threatened incompatibilities into contrasts.

Resources: Ammerman lists a host of resources that assist congregations in adapting to their changing environments, including new programs, denominational partnership with local congregations, strong pastoral leadership, an energetic laity, education and imagination.

These varieties, or «land races,» called «Chimayo» and «Espanola» adapted to particular environments and are still planted today in the same fields they were grown in centuries ago; they constitute a small but distinct part of the tons of pods produced each year in New Mexico.

These varieties, or «land races,» called «Chimayó» and «Española,» had adapted to particular environments and are still planted today in the same fields they were grown in centuries ago; they constitute a small but distinct part of the tons of pods produced each year in New Mexico.

These varieties, or «land races,» called «Chimayo» and «Española,» had adapted to particular environments and are still planted today in the same fields they were grown in centuries ago; they constitute a small but distinct part of the tons of pods produced each year in New Mexico.

Kook yearned to work in a new environment and left the Florentine to work at Chicago Cut Steakhouse, where he adapted his cooking to match the fast - paced and high volume kitchen.

The Frenchman made clear that the North London club take great interest in the any potential transfer target's personality and ability to adapt to new environments.

Week.4: your baby will be comfortable in their own surroundings now but they may be anxious when you take them into a new environments, such as another person's house or a childminders or nursery; babies are very good at adapting to different situations and in time they will get used to new settings; some babies are raring to go and love the excitement of new people and new places, while others are shy and get distressed once their mum or dad leaves them; if this is the case, try not to worry as they will get used to it much quicker than you think.

If your child adapts and adjusts to the new environment in a week or so, that start the potty training again.

In general, well - rested kids can flex and adapt easily to new environments, routines and later sleep times on occasion.

The most daunting challenges for the Labour leader are to restore the party's economic reputation and forge a new political economy, and to demonstrate some supple leadership in dividing the coalition and demonstrating Labour's ability to adapt to this more plural political environment.

It also explains how they managed to survive in an ice age Arctic environment and adapt to life on a new continent.

But it can also produce organisms with new combinations of genes that are better adapted to their environment — which is apparently what happened in the case of L. lugubris.

In order for the root to grow and adapt to a new changing environment, this division, elongation and cell differentiation has to be perfectly coordinated.

On a wide range of scales — from rainwater in coffee pots to tinkering with whole supply chains — the example of the Bullitt Center, she says, demonstrates «new out - of - the - box creative solutions» that adapt to the building's local environment.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

But especially in such a rare coral species, a tiny boost of a few new individuals could make a big difference in their genetic diversity, allowing their populations to adapt and become more resilient to the changing environment in the oceans.»

In a normal one - step relaxation, electrons kicked up by a burst of energy from one atomic location to another quickly adapt their «shape» to the new environment.

A key factor in a viruses» potential to sustain its circulation and ultimately cause disease is its ability to adapt to new host environments.

«This is possibly one of the best examples of ecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Research Unit.

A multitude of factors help makes the human brain superior to the chimps», but new research indicates that looser genetic control of brain development in humans allows us to learn and adapt to our environment with more flexibility than our primate cousins.

In this article, we will explore some of these differences, and how best to adapt to this new, challenging, and exciting environment.

After 15 weeks (with about one new generation per day), the researchers found that rotifers in the homogeneous environments were better adapted to their respective food environments (than they were to the alternative environment), and about seven percent of these rotifers» eggs were created via sexual reproduction.

If there are tens of thousands of rare microbes floating in the water, all with different genes and correspondingly different abilities, there will always be a few that are adapted to the new environment.

Subsequent work showed that aphids also harbor other symbionts that are less important for, or dependent on, their host, but nevertheless help the insects adapt to new niches in a changing environment.

In the distant past, populations of Mexican tetra ended up in underwater caves, a new environment to which the fish adapted by losing their eyesighIn the distant past, populations of Mexican tetra ended up in underwater caves, a new environment to which the fish adapted by losing their eyesighin underwater caves, a new environment to which the fish adapted by losing their eyesight.

A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species of polychaete, a type of marine annelid worm, 9 - meters deep underwater near Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica, providing a good opportunity to study how animals adapt to extreme environments.

In the past 100,000 years, modern humans have colonized the far corners of the globe, adapting to new environments as they migrated.

Instead of using light energy to produce food to support the salamander host, as happens in coral - algae interactions, the algae in salamander cells struggle to adapt to their new environment.

«As a result, traits that might have been beneficial in adapting to challenging new non-African environments could easily be detrimental over the course of a long life without significant risk of infectious disease or starvation.»

The findings provide clues into changes in social interactions during a time when people are thought to have been spreading into new parts of North America and adapting to different environments, beginning a period of cultural diversification.

Hittinger's colleague, Diego Libkind of the Institute for Biodiversity and Environment Research in Bariloche, Argentina, and a co-author of the new study, has conducted extensive field surveys, combing the Patagonian landscape where the cold - adapted yeast that he discovered seems to occur at a very high rate.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Researchers from Brown University have developed a new method for sifting through genomic data in search of genetic variants that have helped populations adapt to their environments.

He is one of the world's leading researchers on synaptic plasticity in the brain and has pioneered new optical methods of observing the structural changes in the living brain as it adapts to its environment.

«Understanding how the environment in which microbes live leads to new properties could help us to predict how microbes will adapt to the use of antibiotics, antimicrobial hand soaps, disinfectants and other products intended to control their spread.»

New research is coming closer to revealing why some organisms adapt quickly to changes in their environment, while others adapt slowly or simply become extinct.

Researchers from Brown University have developed a new method for sifting through genomic data in search of genetic variants that have helped populations adapt to their environments.

As greenhouse gases cause global temperatures to rise, however, sharks are once again swimming in oceans that are warmer and more acidic, forcing them to adapt to their new environment.

In the past, he said, researchers viewed natural selection as a slow process, so they didn't expect to see many species adapting to our relatively new urban environments.

In evolutionary biology it has long been questioned whether the changes that take place in the genome when various species adapt to new environments are primarily due to mutations within protein - forming sequences or whether so - called regulatory mutations play a greater rolIn evolutionary biology it has long been questioned whether the changes that take place in the genome when various species adapt to new environments are primarily due to mutations within protein - forming sequences or whether so - called regulatory mutations play a greater rolin the genome when various species adapt to new environments are primarily due to mutations within protein - forming sequences or whether so - called regulatory mutations play a greater role.

The findings, which have just been published in the scientific journal Nature, identify similarities and differences among lizards, birds and mammals and suggest that the ability of lizards to quickly adapt to new environments may depend on a dynamic genome.

Of course, the iguanas may not live long enough to thrive in their new environment, if they are unable to adapt to the differences of life in Anguilla quickly enough.