Sentences with phrase «animals adapt to new environments»

All are genes which help animals adapt to new environments, infections and threats.

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«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).

Gene variants that improve the animal's ability to adapt to that new environment can then be selected for, and passed on to its progeny.

«When I first saw the animal and its striking appearance, I immediately realized that this is a new, hitherto unnamed and highly adapted to cave environment species.

A new analysis of the crustacean's genome supports this unlikely origin and may help explain how the animal has subsequently spread and adapted to so many new environments.

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.

We all carry our childhood with us throughout our life... some things are buried deeply... some things we take out to remember frequently... Paula was a survivor, a chameleon... she learned to create new personas that fit the changing circumstances of her life by watching her mother react to life... I thought the author did an excellent job of contrasting Paula and Julian in light of their very different childhood experiences... Paula was a closed up prickly cactus... a dessert survivor... all hard, sharp edges that protected the true inner core of her... Julian was an open succulent... soft, sensitive to his nurturing environment... accepting and giving... like plants and animals, human beings adapt to their environment and when are we most open to learning?

Beech and Holly work well for those animals that find it difficult to adapt to new situations, are sensitive to noise, changes in the weather or their environment.

Norwegians are great with kids and other animals and are able to adapt to new environments relatively easily.

(Copenhagen, Denmark) At a time of accelerating transformations in global ecosystems, animals are forced to migrate and adapt themselves to a new environment, where nature, culture and technology are entangled.

Plant and animal species are adapting to changing environments by migrating to new areas.