Sentences with phrase «adaptive mechanisms during»

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This response may be an adaptive strategy to moderate stress to ensure survival, but the accumulation of damaged Symbiodinium, which causes subsequent coral deterioration, may occur when this response can not cope with the magnitude or duration of environmental stress, and this might be a possible mechanism underlying coral bleaching during prolonged moderate thermal stress.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

The aims are to study the adaptive response and damage / repair mechanisms of the foetus and newborn to a poor pre - and perinatal environment as during severe preeclampsia (asphyxia, hypoxia, growth restriction), chronic intrauterine infections and perinatal insults related to hypoxia and inflammation.