Sentences with word «evolvability»

From a more general viewpoint, however, it is clear that long - range effects could contribute to the immediate evolvability of newly emerged functions as they imply that many mutations are able to modulate the new activities.

The researchers note, however, that this doesn't mean that «natural selection for evolvability» is necessarily a common trait across all living things.

For several years, biologists have attempted to provide evidence that natural selection has acted on evolvability.

«The evidence was remarkably strong in favor of evolution for more diversity among cassettes and thus greater evolvability in the expressed protein,» Brisson said.

In particular, it has been difficult in empirical studies to rule out the possibility that evolvability arises and is maintained as a byproduct of selection on organismal features more directly related to fitness.

The researchers used this fact to seek evidence that natural selection had favored increased evolvability, focusing on the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi.

We demonstrate the role of conformational flexibility in allowing for the emergence of new enzymatic functions, as well as its importance in the subsequent evolvability of the enzyme.

«Evolution can select for evolvability, biologists find.»

• When we mentioned the University of Calgary in our article on evolvability we placed it in the wrong city:...

In fact, evolution might produce «evolvability».

Taken together, the results provide direct evidence that evolvability was the target of natural selection.

Though earlier studies had suggested that selection may directly favor the capacity to evolve, they could not definitively rule out that evolvability had arisen for other reasons.

«But we can now say that evolvability can be the object of selection in the face of environmental pressure.»

They plan to use Tadros to probe the font of all life's diversity: the ability to evolve, or evolvability.

Currently, we are investigating the evolvability of gene networks by examining the role of gene co-option in the evolution of abdominal appendages in male sepsid flies.

Increased morphological asymmetry, evolvability and plasticity in human brain evolution.

We aim to discuss how concepts such as modularity, phenotypic plasticity, evolvability and developmental robustness can help to explain how new species originate.