Adaptation, Biological - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Social stress, visceral obesity, and coronary artery atherosclerosis: product of a primate adaptation.

30 Aug 2009 Abdominal obesity is prevalent and often accompanied by an array of metabolic perturbations including elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance or insulin resistance, a prothrombotic state, and a proinflammatory state, ... Read more...

Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating.

30 Aug 2009 Evolutionary psychologists explore the adaptive function of traits and behaviors that characterize modern Homo sapiens. However, evolutionary psychologists have yet to incorporate the phylogenetic relationship between modern Homo sapiens and humans' ... Read more...

Molecular cold-adaptation: comparative analysis of two homologous families of psychrophilic and mesophilic signal proteins of the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes.

30 Jul 2009 Unique opportunities are provided by phylogenetically closely related organisms thriving in stably cold, or temperate milieus to study adaptive modifications of structurally homologous molecules. These modifications are of keen interest in basic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adaptation, Biological - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Social stress, visceral obesity, and coronary artery atherosclerosis: product of a primate adaptation. 30 Aug 2009
• Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating. 30 Aug 2009
• Molecular cold-adaptation: comparative analysis of two homologous families of psychrophilic and mesophilic signal proteins of the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes. 30 Jul 2009
• Vitamin D and the evolution of human depigmentation. 30 Jul 2009
• Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches. 30 Jul 2009
• Climate as a driver of evolutionary change. 26 Jul 2009
• The functional correlates of jaw-muscle fiber architecture in tree-gouging and nongouging callitrichid monkeys. 29 Jun 2009
• Forestry: Planting the forest of the future. 16 Jun 2009
• Can gene flow have negative demographic consequences? Mixed evidence from stream threespine stickleback. 10 Jun 2009
• From stochastic environments to life histories and back. 10 Jun 2009
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of visual selective attention identified by a common spatial pattern decomposition method. 4 Jun 2009
• Adaptive therapy. 30 May 2009
• Adaptation of the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex to head movements in rotating frames of reference. 19 May 2009
• Mating-system evolution: genies from a bottleneck. 10 May 2009
• Functional phase response curves: a method for understanding synchronization of adapting neurons. 4 May 2009
• [Structural-functional transformation of the malate dehydrogenase system of the bacterium Sphaerotilus sp. strain D-507 depending on nutritional mode] 29 Apr 2009
• [Simulation of bacteria-plant coevolution in the mutualistic symbiosis] 29 Apr 2009
• Host mixing and disease emergence. 14 Apr 2009
• Maternal effects on phenotypic plasticity in larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus. 6 Apr 2009
• Biomechanics and structural adaptations of the rat femur after hindlimb suspension and treadmill running. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Adaptation, Biological'

Definition: Changes in biological features that help an organism cope with its ENVIRONMENT. These changes include physiological (ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL), phenotypic and genetic changes.

Descriptor UI: D000220

Alternative terms: Adaptation, Biological; Adaptation, Biologic; Biologic Adaptation; Biological Adaptation;

Related Mesh Headings: Adaptation, Physiological;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: G16.100.057;

Technical Notes: much of biol adapt will be ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL as more specific; mimicry except for MOLECULAR MIMICRY goes here; DF: ADAPTATION BIOL