Sentences with phrase «extreme desiccation»

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

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Beyond this, we could take the DNA repair abilities from Polypedilum vanderplanki, a fly whose larvae can survive complete desiccation and extremes of heat and cold, and transplant them into human cells.

In response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environment.

The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip...

Once deposited in the soil, they are highly resistant to desiccation by environmental factors such as temperature extremes and sunlight and can remain viable for years.

Soil Desiccation - as a result of rising global areas under extreme drought and heatwave, was first observed in the 1990s.

«shallow coral were increasingly vulnerable to deadly desiccation during more extreme sea level drops when warm waters slosh toward the Americas during an El Niño.»