Sentences with phrase «of coevolved»

Modern assaults on the human microbiome may deprive some infants of coevolved microorganisms that shape their immune systems as well as lead to other developmental problems

Proponents of moving plants and animals threatened by rising temperatures to more hospitable locations are more concerned about the increasing rate of species extinction, while opponents are more worried about the integrity of coevolved ecosystems.

Groups of coevolving connections, or reproducible patterns of dynamic FC (dFC), have been revealed in fluctuating FC by applying unsupervised learning techniques.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

And Darwin was explicit in proposing that the traits of the male and the preferences of the female coevolve with one another; that they mutually change with one another over time.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Stories of exquisitely specialized pollination systems — such as those of yuccas, which are pollinated only by coevolved moth species — can give the impression that pollination is an exclusive, highly choreographed dance.

As Science and science age, knowledge and ignorance have coevolved, and the nature of the great questions sometimes changes.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's - Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan (Random House) A gardener with a literary bent explores how four plants — the tulip, the apple, the potato, and marijuana — coevolved with humans.

«But it's possible that selfishness happened first, and over time, some of these species coevolved to become more mutualistic.»

19 A virus called HTLV, which has coevolved with humans for thousands of years, is being used to uncover prehistoric migration patterns.

Those preferences could coevolve with male traits as opinion in a population changes, one feeding back on the other in a scientifically interesting way, the same way short skirts can come in and out of fashion even though they say nothing about the woman wearer.

If two species interact and coevolve with each other, then their coevolution, in turn, could indirectly affect the future evolution of other species within the web.

The «old friends hypothesis» proposes that the human immune system can not learn to regulate itself without exposure to common pathogens like helminths that have coevolved with people and that modern hygienic practices deprive people of this necessary exposure, possibly explaining the relatively higher and more recent prevalence of immune diseases in industrialized countries like the U.S. Loke plans to continue researching helminthic therapy in people and in monkeys.

In a paper published October 18 in the journal Nature, a group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from five universities has attempted to understand how species coevolve within large webs of mutualistic species.

By sifting through the sequence data, they were able to track enough coevolving amino acids to pin down the structures of 614 proteins, each one representing an entire family of proteins for which no structures exist.

Their data shows that fifty years of research describing how hummingbirds and floral nectar have coevolved will have to be reconsidered.

One unexpected and far - reaching consequence of the interaction between selection and the inherent dynamics of complex systems — whether they are single systems or coevolving systems — is that they are propelled toward the balanced state, the edge of chaos.

Given the relationship between spatial structure and the evolutionary stability of different secretion phenotypes, we might expect surface colonization and adhesion strategies to coevolve with the ability to produce extracellular public goods, as well as toxins.

Temperature - driven range expansion of an irruptive insect heightened by weakly coevolved plant defenses.

«She strategically picked an organism to gain insight into early animal evolution and systematically studied it,» said Dianne Newman, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who studies how bacteria coevolve with their environment.

Some plants have coevolved with nitrogen - fixing bacteria, [7] making plants an important part of the nitrogen cycle.

And the future of litigation as we know it is at risk unless law and its practice coevolve with information.

«Basis feedback from our customers we coevolved the product along with PolicyBazaar to cater to their stated needs of protection and growth,» said Deepak Mittal, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Tokio Life.