And models of evolutionary search, starting with the «genetic algorithms» of John Holland, also at Michigan,
suggest higher diversity per se makes it easier to find paths to new fitness peaks.
Not exact matches
«While our statistical findings
suggest that
diversity does coincide with better corporate financial performance and
higher stock market valuations, we acknowledge that we are not able to answer the causality question,» it notes.
«It is unknown what the physiological effects of the parasites are on the bats, but the
high diversity of parasites as well as the
high proportion of individuals that are infected with the parasites
suggest that this may be yet another example of the unusually
high tolerance of these flying mammals for pathogens,» said co-author Juliane Schaer, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services
suggests that
higher plant
diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.
Both studies uncovered a surprisingly
high level of
diversity between the two copies,
suggesting that such variation likely serves as the basis to rapidly evolve new rust strains.
«In addition to having a
higher prevalence of triple - negative breast cancers than Caucasian women — something that has been documented in previous studies — we found that African American women with breast cancer had a significantly
higher prevalence of the TP53 driver mutation, basal tumor subtype and greater genomic
diversity within tumors, all of which
suggest more aggressive tumor biology,» says Tanya Keenan, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center, lead author of the study.
This hypothesis
suggests that
high local genetic
diversity can exist by drawing variation from a common and relatively limited global gene pool.
This
suggests that the existence of Treponema «is likely a good indicator of a general
high level of microbial
diversity in the human gut,» says evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Schnorr of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The finding, published Nov. 9, 2015, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
suggests that even microscopic tumors are likely to contain extremely
high genetic
diversity.
Researchers, including two from SLU,
suggest that part of the answer for such
high plant
diversity could reside in the myriad of root - associated organisms that live in soils.
In general, research from this and other groups
suggests it is better to have a
high diversity of bacterial species living in the gut.
When the merger of two schools was creating discord among students, faculty, and parents, a principal came forward and
suggested starting a new school that would foster harmony,
diversity, democracy,
high academic achievement, and active citizenry.
The
high quality,
diversity and incessant energy of these works also
suggest how much more Murray might have accomplished.
Some
suggest that we need time for racialized licensees to filter through the profession and soon the
highest levels of our profession will reflect the
diversity in our country.