Sentences with phrase «of ecological adaptation»

Research in the Armbruster laboratory is focused on understanding the genetic basis of ecological adaptation in Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus.

A different research group recently found that the Osiris gene cluster is under strong selection in an isolated population of the fly D. yakuba that has just begun adapting to a diet of poison - laden noni, another clue that learning more about these genes may be crucial for understanding OA resistance and this compelling model of ecological adaptation.

Nonetheless, as co-author S D Biju notes, these insights into the frog's development, «enable a better understanding of its ecological adaptations and provide useful information for conservation of this Endangered species and its vanishing habitats.»

Not exact matches

As evolutionary adaptations to ecological circumstances, our states of awareness are causally dependent on those circumstances.

Other priorities include climate adaptation and the Division of Ecological Restoration.

«I was particularly curious of the ecological role of this root adaptation,» explained Frida Piper, a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist at the remote research center Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP) in Coyhaique, Chile.

The study, «Ecological genomics meets community - level modeling of biodiversity: mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the University of Vermont.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

Then a comparison between the genome - based ecological adaptations of different and related clades will be performed in order to explain niche differentiation.

In the presence of food odors and nutrients that metabolize to species - specific pheromones that control the physiology of reproduction, ecological adaptation is what's expected to occur.

evidence for elevated levels of linkage disequilibrium caused by admixture with O. sativa and ecological adaptation Semon, M., R. Nielsen, M. P. Jones, and S. R. McCouch.

evidence for elevated levels of linkage disequilibrium caused by admixture with O. sativa and ecological adaptation.

2) the nutrient energy - dependent polycombic ecological adaptations that link ecological variation to the physiology of pheromone - controlled reproduction in the context of autophagy and chromosomal rearrangements linked to all biodiversity via amino acid substitutions in cell types.

Framing ecological adaptations manifested in morphological and behavioral phenotypes of species from microbes to man in the context of evolution should be detered by experimental evidence of ecological speciation that is nutrient - dependent and pheromone - controlled.

Among these mutations are some of the unique adaptations key to the Passenger Pigeon's ecological function.

Urs Landergott, J. Jakob Schneller, Rolf Holderegger & John D. Thompson — 2009 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: cost of restoration, cytoplasmic male sterility, ecological gradient, gynodioecy, local adaptation, nuclear - cytoplasmic interactions, offspring sex ratio

RNA - directed DNA methylation links the epigenetic landscape to the ecological adaptations manifested in the morphology of the toe pads.

I know little on the subject but you brought to my mind the ecological niche, where integration and adaptation seem to occur by virtue of the?

The core topics covered in this course are the special senses of hearing, vision, and smell, with a special emphasis on the adaptive and ecological significance of sensory adaptations in primates.

There is no real life proof that «races» differ in any meaningful way besides minor ecological and geographical adaptations and evolutionary differences like my long thin nose to pick a rather vulgar example, which clearly changed from my African forefathers due to their migration to colder climates, thus allowing the more efficient heating of the air inhaled, to avoid hypothermia with the minor drawback of restricting the flow of air and thus reducing the amount that can be inhaled compared to those in warmer lands.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

With a wilderness over twice the size of Yellowstone comprised of complex and abundant ecosystems, Katmai offers a wealth of ecological data for everything from the habits of brown bears to the adaptations of tundra plants.

An interesting ecological adaptation to low light that you can look for on the deep reef is the development of skirts or platy growths among the boulder corals.

This is all good for understanding more regional / local impacts — for adaptation, for strengthening the science, and inspiring people to implement mitigation measures — but from an ecological citizen's view, all we need to know at a low level of confidence is that AGW will be causing some bad things or other to be happening somewhere or other, sometime or other, to people and other creatures to feel the heavy responsibility to mitigate here and now.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

The brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

The implications of these projected changes are briefly discussed for physical, social, economic, and ecological systems, and the ICLEI Canada climate adaptation planning methodology is described.

Here, we review the importance of forest genetic resources as a source of evolutionary potential for adaptation to changes in climate and other ecological factors.

Private and public sector organizations face significant obstacles to adaptation: uncertainty regarding future climate change at regional and local scales; uncertainty regarding the future frequency of extreme weather events; and uncertainty regarding the ecological, economic and other impacts of climate change.

Objective 1.2 aims to advance use - inspired science (defined as science necessary to improve fundamental understanding in areas important to society) to assess the vulnerabilities to global change, understand the societal and ecological characteristics that confer resilience in the face of these changes, and support the adaptation and mitigation responses to the risks these changes pose.

A range of mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns mainly in the rich, developed countries that have accumulated an ecological debt to poor communities in the global South.

An important key to success will be developing the capacity to incorporate climate change information into adaptation in the context of other important technological, social, economic and ecological trends.

Building from scratch permits a comprehensive, whole systems approach, and more degrees of freedom than adaptation of an existing city (just as new green buildings can generally deliver better ecological performance than retrofits).

Biological reserves and ecological corridors have been either implemented or planned for the maintenance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems, and these can serve as adaptation measures to help protect ecosystems in the face of climate change.

Strategies for mitigation and adaptation must be holistic, taking into account not only the ecological dimensions of climate change, but also the soclal impacts, human rights, equity and environmental justice.

We argue for expanding the research agenda to consider the adaptation of families caring for children with ID through greater understanding of the social - ecological constraints on families and the resources needed to meet the «normal», everyday adaptive challenges they face.

A potential concern is that (1) by framing the problem as one of family adaptation to caring for a child with ID and (2) by treating the social and ecological context in which families live as a background given, research on the resilience of families caring for a child with ID has certain predictable outcomes.

Their model proposes that the manifestation of the adverse effects of certain risk factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on children's psychosocial adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of resistance factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress - processing variables).

Their model proposes that manifestation of the adverse effects of certain Risk Factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on Adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of Resistance Factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress processing variables).

Families of chronically ill children: A systems and social - ecological model of adaptation and challenge