Journal articles: 'Adaptation (Biology)'

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Khammash, Mustafa H. "Perfect adaptation in biology." Cell Systems 12, no. 6 (June 2021): 509–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2021.05.020.

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Shankar, Prabhat, Masatoshi Nishikawa, and Tatsuo Shibata. "2P273 Gain Noise Relation in Adaptation Networks(24. Mathematical biology,Poster)." Seibutsu Butsuri 53, supplement1-2 (2013): S204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2142/biophys.53.s204_2.

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HARDIE, W. JAMES (JIM). "Grapevine biology and adaptation to viticulture." Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 6, no. 2 (July 2000): 74–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0238.2000.tb00165.x.

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Billeter, R., A. Puntschart, M. Vogt, M. Wittwer, E. Wey, K. Jostarndt, and H. Hoppeler. "Molecular Biology of Human Muscle Adaptation." International Journal of Sports Medicine 18, S 4 (October 1997): S300—S301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-972734.

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Elliott, Tomas. "‘A movie about flowers?’ Notes on the ecological turn in adaptation studies." Adaptation 17, no. 2 (June 26, 2024): 320–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae015.

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Abstract This article takes up and responds to the recent ecological turn in adaptation studies, exploring the discipline’s widespread interest in the overlap between the notion of adaptation in evolutionary biology and the notion of adaptation in literature, film, and media studies. It argues that in order to develop a historically and ecocritically alert approach to adaptation studies, it is necessary to unpack what is at stake in using biological terms and paradigms to study adaptation in art. Firstly, it offers a survey of several studies that have explored the overlap between adaptation in nature and adaptation in culture, arguing that these have been overly influenced by the notions of neo-Darwinism that were popularized by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976). Secondly, it offers a rereading of the film that has become a primary case study among theorists who have reached for biological metaphors to explain cultural change: Adaptation (2002). It argues that whereas scholars have often tended to use Adaptation as a springboard from which to launch an exploration of the purported homology between adaptation in nature and adaptation in art, in fact, the film’s evolutionary themes are clearly historicizable, tied to a set of values coordinated around ideas of heteronormative reproductivity, dissemination, and growth. Examining those values helps to demonstrate how the film’s evolutionary themes are deployed as part of its representational strategies, thereby challenging the idea that they might be unproblematically used to describe the overlap between adaptation in biology and adaptation in art.

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Baitubayеv, D. G. "Biology of increased tolerance and validation of the psychoactive substance dependence." Addiction Research and Adolescent Behaviour 5, no. 1 (January 6, 2022): 01–05. http://dx.doi.org/10.31579/2688-7517/029.

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The article shows that the current level of physiology does not disclose the biological mechanisms of the organism transition from one range to adapt to a higher with an increase in the regular forces of the stimulus above sub-extreme. A new trend in the physiology of adaptation - proqredient adaptation, explains the mechanism of increasing the tolerance of the organism, with dependence on psychoactive substances (PAS ). It is scientifically proved, that dependences of the organism on PAS are the states of progredient adaptation.

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Atıcı, Tahir, and Ümit Yaşatürk Midilli. "Adaptation of Biology Attitude Questionnaire to Turkish." Hellenic Journal of STEM Education 1, no. 2 (August 5, 2021): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.51724/hjstemed.v1i2.2.

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The aim of this study was to adapt ‘Biology Attitude Questionnaire’ (Prokop, Tuncer, & Chudá, 2007) into Turkish. Participants were 242 high school students from Ankara, Turkey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed in order to determine the structural validity of the six dimensional scale. As a result, the final structure of the scale was found to be consisting of three factors and 22 items. The Alpha coefficients of the three factors were found to be 0.882 for the first factor- importance of biology, 0.854 for the second factor- progress of biology lessons and 0.828 for the third factor- interest toward biology.

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Clapp, Emma. "Genetics and molecular biology of muscle adaptation." Journal of Sports Sciences 25, no. 14 (December 2007): 1623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640410701282397.

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GITTENBERGER, E. "Radiation and adaptation, evolutionary biology and semantics." Organisms Diversity & Evolution 4, no. 3 (September 2004): 135–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2004.04.002.

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Nasib ur Rahman, Jia-le Ding, Shah Nawab, Ahmad Ali, Yasir Alam, Adil Qadir, Yasir Alam, and sun kun. "Molecular evaluation and geographical adaptation of plants: A literature review." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 17, no. 1 (January 30, 2023): 029–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.17.1.1404.

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Plants adapt locally to a wide range of environments to achieve ecological specialization. Maladaptation and costly fitness can result from local adaptation. However, these adaptations are not common, and the underlying molecular mechanisms are now unclear. The literature was investigated to recognize potential pathways underlying ecological specialization and local adaptation. Stressors such as drought, high heat, cold, floods, herbivores, and disease were investigated. The results were summarized by recent developments in regional adaptability and plant molecular biology. In addition to situations when modifications aren't a necessary part of adaptation, procedures that may lead to changes in fitness have been identified. In the future, it will be important to investigate local adaptation with a clear focus on molecular processes.

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Coffey, Vernon G., and John A. Hawley. "Training for Performance: Insights From Molecular Biology." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 1, no. 3 (September 2006): 284–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.1.3.284.

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In this commentary the authors discuss the molecular basis of the training adaptation and review the role of several key signaling proteins important in the adaptation to endurance and resistance training.

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Groen, Simon C., Zoé Joly-Lopez, Adrian E. Platts, Mignon Natividad, Zoë Fresquez, William M. Mauck, Marinell R. Quintana, et al. "Evolutionary systems biology reveals patterns of rice adaptation to drought-prone agro-ecosystems." Plant Cell 34, no. 2 (November 15, 2021): 759–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab275.

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Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa) was domesticated around 10,000 years ago and has developed into a staple for half of humanity. The crop evolved and is currently grown in stably wet and intermittently dry agro-ecosystems, but patterns of adaptation to differences in water availability remain poorly understood. While previous field studies have evaluated plant developmental adaptations to water deficit, adaptive variation in functional and hydraulic components, particularly in relation to gene expression, has received less attention. Here, we take an evolutionary systems biology approach to characterize adaptive drought resistance traits across roots and shoots. We find that rice harbors heritable variation in molecular, physiological, and morphological traits that is linked to higher fitness under drought. We identify modules of co-expressed genes that are associated with adaptive drought avoidance and tolerance mechanisms. These expression modules showed evidence of polygenic adaptation in rice subgroups harboring accessions that evolved in drought-prone agro-ecosystems. Fitness-linked expression patterns allowed us to identify the drought-adaptive nature of optimizing photosynthesis and interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Taken together, our study provides an unprecedented, integrative view of rice adaptation to water-limited field conditions.

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O'Brien, Michael J., and Thomas D. Holland. "The Role of Adaptation in Archaeological Explanation." American Antiquity 57, no. 1 (January 1992): 36–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694834.

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Adaptation, a venerable icon in archaeology, often is afforded the vacuous role of being an ex-post-facto argument used to "explain" the appearance and persistence of traits among prehistoric groups—a position that has seriously impeded development of a selectionist perspective in archaeology. Biological and philosophical definitions of adaptation—and by extension, definitions of adaptedness—vary considerably, but all are far removed from those usually employed in archaeology. The prevailing view in biology is that adaptations are features that were shaped by natural selection and that increase the adaptedness of an organism. Thus adaptations are separated from other features that may contribute to adaptedness but are products of other evolutionary processes. Analysis of adaptation comprises two stages: showing that a feature was under selection and how the feature functioned relative to the potential adaptedness of its bearers. The archaeological record contains a wealth of information pertinent to examining the adaptedness of prehistoric groups, but attempts to use it will prove successful only if a clear understanding exists of what adaptation is and is not.

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Nweeia, Martin T. "Biology and Cultural Importance of the Narwhal." Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 12, no. 1 (February 15, 2024): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-021122-112307.

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Though narwhal have survived multiple ice ages, including 2.5 Ma and the last interglacial period with warming temperatures, Arctic climate change during the Anthropocene introduces new challenges. Despite their evolutionary connection to Arctic Pleistocene fossils, narwhal archeocete ancestors from the Pliocene ( Bohaskaia monodontoides ) and Miocene ( Denebola and Odobenocetopsidae) inhabited warm waters. Narwhal Arctic adaptation holds valuable insights into unique traits, including thin skin; extreme diving capacity; and a unique straight, spiraled, and sensory tooth organ system. Inaccessible weather, ice conditions, and darkness limit scientific studies, though Inuit knowledge adds valuable observations of narwhal ecology, biology, and behavior. Existing and future studies in myriad fields of physical, chemical, biological, and genetic science, combined and integrated with remote sensing and imaging technologies, will help elucidate narwhal evolution, biology, and adaptation. When integrated with Qaujimajatuqangit, “the Inuit way of knowing,” these studies help describe interesting biologic expressions of the narwhal.

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Bard, Enzo. "Molecular biology of Leishmania." Biochemistry and Cell Biology 67, no. 9 (September 1, 1989): 516–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/o89-083.

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Leishmania is a trypanosomatid protozoa with a digenetic life cycle. Sandflies inject promastigotes, the free living form present in their salivary glands, into mammals where the parasite colonizes macrophages, transforming into intracellular amastigotes. The cycle is completed when during a blood meal the insect ingests infected macrophages, the amastigotes are released in the gut where they transform back into promastigotes. Leishmania has to adapt to the changing life conditions, from free-living forms in the poikilothermic insect vector to obligatory intracellular parasite in the homeothermic mammalian host. It also has to adapt to the acidic pH of the macrophage's phagolysosome where amastigotes multiply. The adaptative response of Leishmania includes morphological, physiological, and biochemical changes. Promastigotes can be grown in culture medium. Studies of changes taking place during adaptation have been facilitated by the establishment of in vitro conditions that allow the transformation of amastigotes into promastigotes and vice versa. The system is well suited for studying regulation of gene expression during adaptative differentiation. Some mechanisms of mRNA processing are unique to these protozoa: trans-splicing and RNA editing. Several genes that are differentially expressed in the two stages have been studied. No obvious cis regulatory motifs have been found in the DNA.Key words: Leishmania, genes, differentiation, regulation.

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Salimi, Shabnam. "DNA METHYLATION AT THE CROSSROADS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO STRESS AND PATHOLOGICAL BIOLOGY." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2694.

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Abstract It is likely that the dimension and the scope of stress perception are different in different body systems conditioning their specific rates of aging. Moreover, in addition to between-individual variabilities in body response to stress, there is inter-organs variability in adaptations resulting in pleiotropy of phenotypes evolved with aging. Epigenetic measures may be considered possible readouts of the extent and proxy of the adaptive response to intrinsic and/or extrinsic stress in body organs. It is thus important to disentangle the epigenetic basis of stress, adaptation, and pathology. In this symposium we discuss a combination of the specific DNA methylation patterns relate to the diseases as an intrinsic stressor and adaptation responses imposed to bodily systems, and also accelerated body organ morbidities. We explain the static and dynamic DNA methylation differentiation over time as the “epigenetic code” of accelerated pathology across various age using longitudinal data.

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BELL, M. A. "Adaptation in Sticklebacks: A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks." Science 228, no. 4699 (May 3, 1985): 574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4699.574.

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Holmes, K. V. "STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: Adaptation of SARS Coronavirus to Humans." Science 309, no. 5742 (September 16, 2005): 1822–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1118817.

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Kirby, Tyler J., and John J. McCarthy. "MicroRNAs in skeletal muscle biology and exercise adaptation." Free Radical Biology and Medicine 64 (September 2013): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.07.004.

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Pérez, Julio E., Mauro Nirchio, Carmen Alfonsi, and Carlos Muñoz. "The Biology of Invasions: The Genetic Adaptation Paradox." Biological Invasions 8, no. 5 (March 3, 2006): 1115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-005-8281-0.

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Heger, Jacqueline, and Klaus-Dieter Schlüter. "Renin and the IGFII/M6P Receptor System in Cardiac Biology." Scientific World Journal 2013 (2013): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/260298.

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Nonenzymatic cardiac activities of renin are well described during the last years and contribute either to cardiac-specific effects of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system (RAAS) or to the pharmacological effects of RAAS inhibition. The interaction of renin with insulin-like growth factor II/mannose-6-phosphate (IGFII/M6P) receptors participates in nonclassical renin effects and contributes to cardiac remodelling caused by RAAS activation. The current findings suggest an important role for renin IGFII/M6P receptor interaction in cardiac adaptation to stress and support the idea that excessive accumulation of renin during inhibition of RAAS directly contributes to blood pressure-independent effects of these pharmacological interventions. It becomes a challenge for future studies focussing on chronic hypertension or myocardial infarction to comprise regulatory adaptations of the kidney, the main source of plasma renin and prorenin, because they directly contribute to key steps in regulation of cardiac (mal)adaptation via IGFII/M6P receptors. This receptor system is part of peptide/receptor interactions that modifies and possibly limits adverse remodelling effects caused by angiotensin II. Evaluation of interactions of renin with other pro-hypertrophic agonists is required to decide whether this receptor may become a target of pharmacological intervention.

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Davidson, Debra J. "Rethinking Adaptation." Nature and Culture 13, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 378–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2018.130304.

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Understanding that climate change poses considerable threats for social systems, to which we must adapt in order to survive, social responses to climate change should be viewed in the context of evolution, which entails the variation, selection, and retention of information. Digging deeper into evolutionary theory, however, emotions play a surprisingly prominent role in adaptation. This article offers an explicitly historical, nondirectional conceptualization of our potential evolutionary pathways in response to climate change. Emotions emerge from the intersection of culture and biology to guide the degree of variation of knowledge to which we have access, the selection of knowledge, and the retention of that knowledge in new (or old) practices. I delve into multiple fields of scholarship on emotions, describing several important considerations for understanding social responses to climate change: emotions are shared, play a central role in decision-making, and simultaneously derive from past evolutionary processes and define future evolutionary processes.

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Merker, Bjorn. "The Uneven Interface Between Culture and Biology in Human Music." Music Perception 24, no. 1 (September 1, 2006): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2006.24.1.95.

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Two recent reviews in Music Perception address potential cognitive adaptations for music. In this commentary I sketch a number of connections between issues raised in these reviews and the biology of music more generally. Potential perceptual and cognitive specializations for music are distinguished from those of production, the latter supplying a key adaptation for music in the form of vocal learning. The generative nature of human music is emphasized, as is the potential relevance of nonlinear resonance phenomena in audition and the shaping power of the “learner bottle-neck” in cultural transmission for our understanding of the structural content of extant musical forms.

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Hutcheon, Linda, and Gary R. Bortolotti. "On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and „Success”– Biologically." Tekstualia 1, no. 60 (May 5, 2020): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1357.

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Like the early evolutionary theory (though unlike Darwin’s own output), much work in literary adaptation today operates only in terms of higher and lower forms, considering adaptations as more or less „faithful” to the „original”. In biology, it was only when this sort of evaluative discourse was discarded that new questions could be asked and therefore new answers offered. To that end, a biologist and a literary theorist work to develop the homology between biological and cultural adaptation, between natural and cultural selection: stories, in a manner parallel to genes, replicate; adaptations of both evolve with changing environments. Their „success” cannot and should not, in either case, be limited to their degree of „fidelity” to anything called a „source” or „original”.

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Oh, Jeong-Il, and Samuel Kaplan. "Oxygen Adaptation." Journal of Biological Chemistry 277, no. 18 (February 25, 2002): 16220–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m200198200.

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Davey, John. "Introduction: Adaptation mechanisms." Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 9, no. 2 (April 1998): 109–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/scdb.1997.0222.

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Xiong, Liyang, Wenjia Shi, and Chao Tang. "Adaptation through proportion." Physical Biology 13, no. 4 (August 16, 2016): 046007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/13/4/046007.

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Kuchar, Leszek, E. S. Ivanov, A. V. Baranovskiy, D. V. Vinogradov, Ja Leśny, and A. V. Schur. "Anthropogenic adaptation of reproductive biology of conditional-synanthropic birds." Theoretical and Applied Ecology, no. 3 (2018): 62–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.25750/1995-4301-2018-3-062-068.

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Gerhard, Friederike A., Duncan J. Webster, G. Harry van Lenthe, and Ralph Müller. "In silico biology of bone modelling and remodelling: adaptation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 367, no. 1895 (May 28, 2009): 2011–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0297.

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Modelling and remodelling are the processes by which bone adapts its shape and internal structure to external influences. However, the cellular mechanisms triggering osteoclastic resorption and osteoblastic formation are still unknown. In order to investigate current biological theories, in silico models can be applied. In the past, most of these models were based on the continuum assumption, but some questions related to bone adaptation can be addressed better by models incorporating the trabecular microstructure. In this paper, existing simulation models are reviewed and one of the microstructural models is extended to test the hypothesis that bone adaptation can be simulated without particular knowledge of the local strain distribution in the bone. Validation using an experimental murine loading model showed that this is possible. Furthermore, the experimental model revealed that bone formation cannot be attributed only to an increase in trabecular thickness but also to structural reorganization including the growth of new trabeculae. How these new trabeculae arise is still an unresolved issue and might be better addressed by incorporating other levels of hierarchy, especially the cellular level. The cellular level sheds light on the activity and interplay between the different cell types, leading to the effective change in the whole bone. For this reason, hierarchical multi-scale simulations might help in the future to better understand the biomathematical laws behind bone adaptation.

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Dani, R. G., and B. R. Murty. "Genetic divergence and biology of adaptation inCicer arietinum L." Theoretical and Applied Genetics 69, no. 4 (1985): 383–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00570907.

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Shankar, Anuraj H., and Peter Winch. "Adaptation to malaria: The interaction of biology and culture." American Journal of Human Biology 11, no. 4 (1999): 569–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(1999)11:4<569::aid-ajhb19>3.0.co;2-z.

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Cooney, Gregory. "Biochemical adaptation." Trends in Biochemical Sciences 10, no. 2 (February 1985): 88–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0968-0004(85)90250-6.

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FRANKHAM, RICHARD. "Quantitative genetics in conservation biology." Genetical Research 74, no. 3 (December 1999): 237–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001667239900405x.

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Most of the major genetic concerns in conservation biology, including inbreeding depression, loss of evolutionary potential, genetic adaptation to captivity and outbreeding depression, involve quantitative genetics. Small population size leads to inbreeding and loss of genetic diversity and so increases extinction risk. Captive populations of endangered species are managed to maximize the retention of genetic diversity by minimizing kinship, with subsidiary efforts to minimize inbreeding. There is growing evidence that genetic adaptation to captivity is a major issue in the genetic management of captive populations of endangered species as it reduces reproductive fitness when captive populations are reintroduced into the wild. This problem is not currently addressed, but it can be alleviated by deliberately fragmenting captive populations, with occasional exchange of immigrants to avoid excessive inbreeding. The extent and importance of outbreeding depression is a matter of controversy. Currently, an extremely cautious approach is taken to mixing populations. However, this cannot continue if fragmented populations are to be adequately managed to minimize extinctions. Most genetic management recommendations for endangered species arise directly, or indirectly, from quantitative genetic considerations.

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Hassani, Bahia Khalfaoui, Anne-Soisig Steunou, Sylviane Liotenberg, Françoise Reiss-Husson, Chantal Astier, and Soufian Ouchane. "Adaptation to Oxygen." Journal of Biological Chemistry 285, no. 26 (March 24, 2010): 19891–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m109.086066.

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Gechev, Tsanko, and Veselin Petrov. "Plant Systems Biology in 2022 and Beyond." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 8 (April 9, 2022): 4159. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23084159.

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Plants have remarkable plasticity due to their vast genetic potential which interacts with many external factors and developmental signals to govern development and adaptation to changing environments [...]

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Luan, Jun-Bo. "Insect Bacteriocytes: Adaptation, Development, and Evolution." Annual Review of Entomology 69, no. 1 (January 25, 2024): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-010323-124159.

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Bacteriocytes are host cells specialized to harbor symbionts in certain insect taxa. The adaptation, development, and evolution of bacteriocytes underlie insect symbiosis maintenance. Bacteriocytes carry enriched host genes of insect and bacterial origin whose transcription can be regulated by microRNAs, which are involved in host–symbiont metabolic interactions. Recognition proteins of peptidoglycan, the bacterial cell wall component, and autophagy regulate symbiont abundance in bacteriocytes. Horizontally transferred genes expressed in bacteriocytes influence the metabolism of symbiont peptidoglycan, which may affect the bacteriocyte immune response against symbionts. Bacteriocytes release or transport symbionts into ovaries for symbiont vertical transmission. Bacteriocyte development and death, regulated by transcriptional factors, are variable in different insect species. The evolutionary origin of insect bacteriocytes remains unclear. Future research should elucidate bacteriocyte cell biology, the molecular interplay between bacteriocyte metabolic and immune functions, the genetic basis of bacteriocyte origin, and the coordination between bacteriocyte function and host biology in diverse symbioses.

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Krage, Michael, and Christopher Daood. "The Biology of Morality." Politics and the Life Sciences 11, no. 2 (August 1992): 268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400015288.

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A conference titled “The Biology of Morality: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue” was held at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 13 and 14, 1992. Organizers James Hurd (anthropology) and Carole Young (psychology) focused the conference around the question, “Are adaptation and natural selection sufficient explanations for the rise of morality and moral systems, or must we seek explanation beyond the natural sciences?” The presenters came from a variety of fields, including biology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology.

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Tamayo-Ordóñez, Yahaira de J., Ninfa M. Rosas-García, Francisco A. Tamayo-Ordoñez, Benjamín A. Ayil-Gutiérrez, Juan M. Bello-López, Gerardo de J. Sosa-Santillán, Erika Acosta-Cruz, et al. "Genomic Evolution Strategy in SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B: Coevolution of Cis Elements." Current Issues in Molecular Biology 46, no. 6 (June 9, 2024): 5744–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cimb46060344.

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In the SARS-CoV-2 lineage, RNA elements essential for its viral life cycle, including genome replication and gene expression, have been identified. Still, the precise structures and functions of these RNA regions in coronaviruses remain poorly understood. This lack of knowledge points out the need for further research to better understand these crucial aspects of viral biology and, in time, prepare for future outbreaks. In this research, the in silico analysis of the cis RNA structures that act in the alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and deltacoronavirus genera has provided a detailed view of the presence and adaptation of the structures of these elements in coronaviruses. The results emphasize the importance of these cis elements in viral biology and their variability between different viral variants. Some coronavirus variants in some groups, depending on the cis element (stem-loop1 and -2; pseudoknot stem-loop1 and -2, and s2m), exhibited functional adaptation. Additionally, the conformation flexibility of the s2m element in the SARS variants was determined, suggesting a coevolution of this element in this viral group. The variability in secondary structures suggests genomic adaptations that may be related to replication processes, genetic regulation, as well as the specific pathogenicity of each variant. The results suggest that RNA structures in coronaviruses can adapt and evolve toward different viral variants, which has important implications for viral adaptation, pathogenicity, and future therapeutic strategies.

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Lipscomb, Barney. "Annual Review of Plant Biology, Volume 73." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 16, no. 2 (November 29, 2022): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v16.i2.1279.

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The Annual Review of Plant Biology, in publication since 1950, covers the significant developments in the field of plant biology, including biochemistry and biosynthesis, genetics, genomics and molecular biology, cell differentiation, tissue, organ and whole plant events, acclimation and adaptation, and methods and model organisms. Volume 73 has 27 papers.

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Lau, Kwok-chi, Anthony Hiu-Fung Lo, and Kam-bo Wong. "An Adaptation of Anfinsen's Protein-Folding Experiment for Classroom Investigation." American Biology Teacher 80, no. 5 (May 1, 2018): 379–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2018.80.5.379.

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The study adapts Anfinsen's Nobel-winning experiment of protein folding into biology investigation for secondary and college students. This experiment is significant for secondary and college science learning not only for its associations with some core concepts in biology, but also for its rich nature of science and science practices. The lab procedure of the original experiment was modified to be accessible to secondary biology teachers and students. A detailed lab manual and task sheet are available.

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Baron, Szilvia, Oshri Afanzar, and Michael Eisenbach. "Methylation-independent adaptation in chemotaxis ofEscherichia coliinvolves acetylation-dependent speed adaptation." FEBS Letters 591, no. 2 (January 2017): 331–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.12537.

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Lai, Huei-Yi, and Tim F. Cooper. "Dynamics of bacterial adaptation." Biochemical Society Transactions 49, no. 2 (April 12, 2021): 945–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst20200885.

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Determining pattern in the dynamics of population evolution is a long-standing focus of evolutionary biology. Complementing the study of natural populations, microbial laboratory evolution experiments have become an important tool for addressing these dynamics because they allow detailed and replicated analysis of evolution in response to controlled environmental and genetic conditions. Key findings include a tendency for smoothly declining rates of adaptation during selection in constant environments, at least in part a reflection of antagonism between accumulating beneficial mutations, and a large number of beneficial mutations available to replicate populations leading to significant, but relatively low genetic parallelism, even as phenotypic characteristics show high similarity. Together, there is a picture of adaptation as a process with a varied and largely unpredictable genetic basis leading to much more similar phenotypic outcomes. Increasing sophistication of sequencing and genetic tools will allow insight into mechanisms behind these and other patterns.

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Jo, Jiseon, Heeyoung Cha, and Pilseung Yang. "Pre-service Biology Teachers' Perspectives about Biological Competition and Adaptation." Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education 36, no. 5 (October 31, 2016): 801–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2016.36.5.0801.

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Yokoyama, S. "Synthetic Biology of Phenotypic Adaptation in Vertebrates: The Next Frontier." Molecular Biology and Evolution 30, no. 7 (April 19, 2013): 1495–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst075.

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Autumn, Kellar, Michael J. Ryan, and David B. Wake. "Integrating Historical and Mechanistic Biology Enhances the Study of Adaptation." Quarterly Review of Biology 77, no. 4 (December 2002): 383–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/344413.

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Borowitzka, Michael A. "The ‘stress’ concept in microalgal biology—homeostasis, acclimation and adaptation." Journal of Applied Phycology 30, no. 5 (January 25, 2018): 2815–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1399-0.

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Fitch, W. Tecumseh. "Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Human Language Evolution: Constraints on Adaptation." Evolutionary Biology 39, no. 4 (March 7, 2012): 613–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-012-9162-y.

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Chernin, Jack. "The biology of parasitism: Molecular biology and immunology of the adaptation and development of parasites." Parasitology Today 11, no. 6 (June 1995): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-4758(95)80089-1.

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Nowak, Martin A. "Evolutionary biology of language." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 355, no. 1403 (November 29, 2000): 1615–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2000.0723.

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Language is the most important evolutionary invention of the last few million years. It was an adaptation that helped our species to exchange information, make plans, express new ideas and totally change the appearance of the planet. How human language evolved from animal communication is one of the most challenging questions for evolutionary biology. The aim of this paper is to outline the major principles that guided language evolution in terms of mathematical models of evolutionary dynamics and game theory. I will discuss how natural selection can lead to the emergence of arbitrary signs, the formation of words and syntactic communication.

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VanWallendael, Acer, Ali Soltani, Nathan C. Emery, Murilo M. Peixoto, Jason Olsen, and David B. Lowry. "A Molecular View of Plant Local Adaptation: Incorporating Stress-Response Networks." Annual Review of Plant Biology 70, no. 1 (April 29, 2019): 559–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100114.

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Ecological specialization in plants occurs primarily through local adaptation to different environments. Local adaptation is widely thought to result in costly fitness trade-offs that result in maladaptation to alternative environments. However, recent studies suggest that such trade-offs are not universal. Further, there is currently a limited understanding of the molecular mechanisms responsible for fitness trade-offs associated with adaptation. Here, we review the literature on stress responses in plants to identify potential mechanisms underlying local adaptation and ecological specialization. We focus on drought, high and low temperature, flooding, herbivore, and pathogen stresses. We then synthesize our findings with recent advances in the local adaptation and plant molecular biology literature. In the process, we identify mechanisms that could cause fitness trade-offs and outline scenarios where trade-offs are not a necessary consequence of adaptation. Future studies should aim to explicitly integrate molecular mechanisms into studies of local adaptation.

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