Sentences with phrase «novel ecological niches»
What these shifts provide is a wedge that opens up novel ecological niches, new possibilities for the search engine of evolution to explore.
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Biologists from Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now elucidated the sensory basis of their ability to exploit a novel ecological niche.
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Novel method to identify source - associated phylogenetic clustering shows that Listeria monocytogenes includes niche - adapted clonal groups with distinct ecological preferences.
In 1996, Japanese scientists discovered A. marina living on the light left over by Chl a organisms and able to stretch into the far - red and near - infrared through the novel pigment Chl d instead of Chl a. Research at GISS has quantified the photon energy use efficiency of A. marina in comparison to Chl a organisms, and is now turned toward investigating its light regime in nature to ascertain its kinetics of light use and competitive ecological niche.