Sentences with phrase «highly adaptive strategies»

These results show how similar ecological contexts can result in the repeated evolution of highly adaptive strategies across species and regions.

Their «cooperative mothers» hypothesis suggests that parental care and nursing responsibilities shared by a group, or alloparenting, provided a highly adaptive strategy.

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The results of this original study are highly relevant to other human diseases that dependent on genome instability, such as fungal infection or cancer, and open new venues for anti-leishmanial drug discovery using host - directed strategies that target the parasite's metabolic dependence on the host cell, thus preventing the adaptive evolution of drug resistant parasites.

Escapist and avoidant coping strategies such as distraction have been shown to reduce anxiety, fear and pain in situations such as medical procedures (Lee et al., 2012) or exposure to feared stimuli (Johnstone and Page, 2004) and could therefore be considered highly adaptive for dealing with these particular situations.