Sentences with phrase «of adaptive plasticity»
Instead, the variety of environments in which humans seem to thrive highlights the «extraordinary level of adaptive plasticity afforded by our capacities for learning and culture,» Laland and his co-authors noted in their paper.
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Scanziani and his colleagues sought to understand the origins of this adaptive plasticity by studying the eye movements in mice before and after disabling their vestibular ocular reflex.
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Successful behavioral adaptation to habitat is fundamentally important to species fitness, but linking such behaviors to genes has proven difficult due to plasticity of phenotypes and rarity of within - species genetic variation underlying adaptive behavioral patterns.
A comparative analysis of the adaptive developmental plasticity hypothesis in six Mediterranean anuran species along a pond permanency gradient.
Our results suggest that gene dosage is an adaptive trait that confers phenotypic plasticity among natural Leishmania populations by rapid down - or upregulation of transporter proteins to limit the effects of environmental stresses, such as drug selection.
We have demonstrated that under suboptimal IVC conditions, there is an adaptive response of the preimplantation embryo that activates physiological mechanisms of developmental plasticity to stabilize conceptus growth and extraembryonic lineage and enhance postnatal fitness that may lead to adult excess growth and cardiovascular, behavioral, and fertility alterations [2].
Results of individual studies have suggested that some children who enter into intensive autism - specialized intervention services at young ages may show larger gains in terms of cognitive and adaptive functioning and early educational attainment than children who do not receive such services.2, — , 6 This research led to a reconceptualization of ASDs as a group of disorders marked by plasticity and heterogeneity and for which there was hope for better outcomes for some children who receive appropriate intervention.