Sentences with phrase «evolutionary arms race»

Watch our animation to learn how genomics can help us to understand this complex evolutionary arms race.

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

The fact that Anomalocaris had such keen eyesight may have been part of an early evolutionary arms race, the authors suggest.

Genomics has an important role to play in understanding this complex evolutionary arms race.

Understanding this «evolutionary arms race» between bacteria and antibiotics allows us to develop strategies for minimizing resistance.

By precisely measuring the movements of predators and prey during hunts, researchers have now modelled the optimum strategy of both hunter and hunted, unpacking the subtle details of this evolutionary arms race.

By way of explanation, Malik and Henikoff proposed an evolutionary arms race, not unlike that which occurs between a virus and a host's immune system.

Recently, Malik and his colleagues recently discovered that a primate gene, TRIM5alpha, appears to be locked in an evolutionary arms race with HIV1.

The diversification of these toxins correlates directly with their functional importance in prey capture, for example the most pathogenic king cobra toxin family have undergone massive expansion, while, in contrast, venom proteins with less important functions do not participate in the evolutionary arms race occurring between snakes and their prey.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

The scientific paper of 2013 that reads most like a comic book comes from biologists at Boise State University and the University of Florida, who describe the spectacular results of the «evolutionary arms race» between the bat and the hawk moth, which «have been engaged in aerial warfare for nearly 65 [million years].»

The rise of carnivory would have set off an evolutionary arms race that led to the burst of complex body types and behaviours that fill the oceans today.

It may have launched an evolutionary arms race.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

Krasnow and Mehr believe the tug of war between an infant seeking as much attention as possible and the caregiver dividing attention among other offspring and tasks crucial for survival may have set the stage for an evolutionary arms race.

New research led by the University of Utah challenges this paradigm of an evolutionary arms race.

I'm fascinated by the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the birds that it parasitises.

Basically this is what's known as an evolutionary arms race.

Their evolutionary arms race is a wonder to behold, but the UK's cuckoos are vanishing at an alarming rate, says zoologist Nick Davies

He says that the appearance of hard - bodied animals could well have resulted from an evolutionary arms race between the teeth of predators and the skeletons of prey.

The behaviors have led to what researchers term an evolutionary arms race, with the birds evolving various strategies to outwit their rivals, such as hiding nuts in the shade or behind barriers, or moving their cache to new locations.

Isbell calls the relationship between snakes and primates throughout history «an evolutionary arms race.»

In the evolutionary arms race to defeat the disease, subtle and indirect maneuvers like these may ultimately prove most effective.

«We began the project with the hypothesis that different CRISPR systems may have been specialized throughout an evolutionary arms race between bacteria and their viruses, potentially giving them the ability to target viral RNA,» explains Salk Research Associate Silvana Konermann, an HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow and the paper's first author.

In the evolutionary arms race to defeat the disease, subtle and indirect maneuvers like targeting old mosquitoes and locking malaria inside blood cells may ultimately prove most effective.

The idea is that it's probably an evolutionary arms race because if prey become smarter predators have to adapt.

The brilliant hues, researchers say, may indicate that this group of insects has been waging an evolutionary arms race that dates back tens of millions of years.

Scientists believe this chaotic copulation sparked an evolutionary arms race where some male diving beetles evolved circular suckers on their feet in place of the grooved spatula - shaped structures more commonly found on other beetles.

Suddenly there were epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, and malaria, diseases unknown to hunter - gatherers, and so began an evolutionary arms race to fend off the assault through superior immunity.

That gives the snake an advantage in an evolutionary arms race.

An evolutionary arms race 500 million years ago seems to have unexpectedly caused today's gelatinous comb jellies to armor up — and they weren't alone.

With each scientific paper, researchers are discovering just how chillingly impressive viruses can be: They're the freshly sharpened point of an evolutionary arms race with hosts like ourselves.

Many diverse factors impact the evolutionary arms race that has shaped vast biological complexities dictating plant host interactions with pathogens and pests.

The evolutionary arms race between plants and their attackers has provided plants with a highly sophisticated defense system that, like the animal innate immune system, recognizes pathogen molecules and responds by activating specific defenses that are directed against the invader.

Dr. Harmit Singh Malik describes his scientific research as an «evolutionary arms race,» whose combatants are microscopic genes, each battling to attain evolutionary dominance over its neighbors and, in so doing, assure its long - term survival.

«However, now that we've shed light on this complex process, we are one step closer to developing new drugs that will help us pull ahead in this evolutionary arms race.»

Such giant creatures are often attributed to one of three factors: 1) supercharged development by climbing atmospheric oxygen levels; or 2) an evolutionary arms race gone wild in parallel with its trilobite prey; or, 3) a paucity of vertebrate predator competition, all of which are plausible in Paleozoic paleobiology.

«We were able to show that when multiple traits, not just a single trait, govern how the hosts and parasites interact, victims can gain the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race.»

Another question raised in the Nature Communications paper is whether the presence of altruism - promoting microbes could kick off an evolutionary arms race between microbes and their hosts.

The ability to grow a resistant skeleton was a major factor in the evolutionary arms races of the Phanerozoic eon — the time since the Cambrian explosion — and it made possible the dizzying variety of shells, bones and teeth scattered throughout the Phanerozoic fossil record.

This abundance is proof of their success in the evolutionary arms race.

Phone manufacturers are constantly in an evolutionary arms race with chancers who find new back - door entrances into devices.