Sentences with word «coevolution»

«These data provide a remarkable example of coevolution between humans and the natural world; in particular, the microbial environment,» said Jay Dunlap, PhD, chair of the Department of Genetics and a professor of genetics and of biochemistry.

Pérez - Barbería, F. J., Shultz, S. & Dunbar, R. I. M. Evidence for coevolution of sociality and relative brain size in three orders of mammals.

The Yoder Lab studies how coevolution between interacting species helps to create and maintain biodiversity, and how intimate species interactions can help or hinder adaptation to other factors, including changing climate.

Because cats have had a much shorter period of coevolution with humans than dogs, they've been subject to less selection for facial expressions that we translate in dogs as «easy to read» and «human - like.»

«In order to investigate the influence of the number of traits on coevolution, we used quantitative genetics and individual - based simulations to analyze a model of a victim - exploiter system,» Gilman said.

Prior studies have focused primarily on the evolutionary histories of both hosts and herbivores to understand coevolution.

Current research projects include: testing models of antagonistic coevolution by studying populations of nematodes that have evolved under different mating conditions; developing transgenic technology in fruit flies in order to test hypotheses about the function of non-coding DNA (collaboration with Jack Bateman); and using mitochondrial genome sequences to investigate the coevolutionary relationships between follicle mites and their mammalian hosts.

The results call into question some of the patterns suggested by the current paradigm for plant - herbivore coevolution.

The genomic data in the paper contributes to a long history of research on the coevolutionary interaction between lodgepole pine and red crossbills in the South Hills of Idaho to produce one of the only well documented examples of coevolution directly causing the formation of a new species.

Major Symposium F: Immune — Microbe Coevolution Ballroom EFG Chairs: Janelle S. Ayres, Salk Inst.

I am particularly interested in understanding how sexual conflict and sexually antagonistic coevolution facilitate or prevent the evolution of facultative strategies that incorporate both sexual and asexual reproduction.

The Yoder Lab, part of the Department of Biology at California State University Northridge, studies coevolution and the population genomics of local adaptation, particularly in mutualisms.

Rothenburg further said that on the population level, this is probably the best - known example for a host - virus coevolution in nature, but it lacked a molecular explanation until this study.

«Knowing exactly what happens in tidal disruption flares could help us understand this black hole and galaxy coevolution process.»

The relatively quick coevolution occurred in two small Great Basin mountain ranges in southern Idaho, just across the border from Nevada.

«A real Peter Rabbit tale: Biologists find key to myxoma virus / rabbit coevolution.»

While coevolution can produce mutualisms like these, it can also drive species into endless battles with their opponents.

Related sites Abstract of Science Express paper Background on gravitational lenses Very Large Array Coevolution of black holes and galaxies (conference proceedings)

«Those parasites are jumping around a lot more than they should be if the way we were trained about coevolution was true.»

If insects first discovered pollen as a food source in Permian times, that sets the engine of plant - insect coevolution moving far earlier than had been thought.

They wanted to understand how coevolution shapes species that interact both directly and indirectly.

These two results, together with other results reported in the paper, have many implications for the understanding of evolution and coevolution within webs of interacting species.

The authors studied the relative effects of direct and indirect coevolution on the evolution of traits within webs of different shapes.

«A long history of research has sought to connect coevolution directly to the origin of new species, but none have been able to implicate as clear of a connection as we have here,» he said.

«Coevolution also occurs between other crossbill and pine taxa, but the South Hills crossbill has been studied in exceptional ecological detail,» Parchman said.

This may be a fleeting instance of coevolution influencing speciation, but we have observed enough of it to see that it can happen and may happen in other similar situations.»

This is ecological coevolution along the lines of Batesian mimicry.»

In the game of leapfrog that is evolution by natural selection, predators and hosts evolve together in a process called coevolution.

* Immune loss as a driver of coexistence during host - phage coevolution Jake L Weissman — The ISME Journal

This may explain why my research is currently focused on understanding how male / female coevolution and social interactions simultaneously affect mating, fertilization and parental investment.

Major Symposium F: Immune — Microbe Coevolution Chairs: James R. Carlyle, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Janelle S. Ayres, Salk Inst.

«This study demonstrates the powerful resource presented by the genomic ERV record to better understand host - retrovirus coevolution», says Patric Jern, faculty at SciLifeLab and Research fellow at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, who headed the study.

Our findings also demonstrate the dominance of three of the four bacterial phyla that dominate other mammalian microbiomes, including those of humans, and show tremendous diversity at the species / strain level, suggesting tight coevolution of the dolphin host and its URT bacterial community.

These findings also reveal general trends towards the origination of specialized diets, many of which involve close coevolution between insects and their animal or plant hosts, as well as providing a broad description of the history of diet evolution across the different insect orders.

Based on their findings, the researchers concluded that coevolution among humans and H. pylori reduced gastric cancer disease risk in the people of African descent.

Because of the complex coevolution of bacterial strains, cultivated through our food supply, and complementary to our inner microbiomes, we have an opportunity to use therapeutic foods to reeducate an immune system that has been drawn off course.

People of Amerindian descent would have been exposed to European or African strains of H. pylori much more recently, meaning that there would not have been time for coevolution to take place and explaining the worse outcomes among the villagers in the mountain community.

Kiang, N.Y., A. Segura, G. Tinetti, Govindjee, R.E. Blankenship, M. Cohen, J. Siefert, D. Crisp, and V.S. Meadows, 2007: Spectral signatures of photosynthesis II: Coevolution with other stars and the atmosphere on extrasolar worlds.

«Evolutionary arms «chase»: New study challenges paradigm on plant - herbivore coevolution.»

Research carried out in two distinct communities in Colombia illustrates how coevolution between humans and bacteria can affect a person's risk of disease.

Candice Lin, «Coevolution by Traumatic Insemination: Bedbug», 2015.

And if no significant changes are immediately occurring, patience for coevolution of the two organizations is crucial.