(n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fitness is a consequence of the adaptedness of an entity to its environment.
(2) The results of long-term studies of changes in adaptedness in a number of experimental populations of annual plants are summarized.
(3) We have examined the relationship between genetic diversity and adaptedness for 14 allozyme loci in A. barbata and its diploid ancestors in samples collected from diverse habitats in Israel and Spain.
(4) Evidence that human behavior is or has been adaptive comes from the likelihood that it would have been useful in our environment of evolutionary adaptedness, that it forms a coherent whole with other characteristics, and that variants contribute or would be likely to contribute to reproductive success.
(5) Selfing appears to promote the development and maintenance of adaptedness within populations and at the same time to facilitate the development of spatial differentiation by retarding gene flow between populations.
(6) These results indicate that allelic diversity fixed in nonsegregating form through chromosome doubling was an important factor in the evolution of adaptedness in A. barbata.
(7) This enhances the value of the evolving populations as sources of genetic variability in breeding for disease resistance and other characters that affect adaptedness.
(8) However, it is unlikely that heterosis associated with heterozygosity contributed significantly to superior adaptedness in either the diploids or the tetraploid because virtually all loci (approximately 99%) were homozygous in the Avena diploids and tetraploid.
(9) This extraordinary measure of adaptedness fits L. destructor for life in irregularly fluctuating environments.
(10) The genetic organization of the loci of this set is defined by a single five-locus genotype; each allele of this predominant genotype is a "wild-type" allele that contributes favorably to adaptedness in all single-locus and multilocus configurations regardless of environment.
(11) Changes which enhance adaptedness to the environment occur in experimental populations of Drosophila serrata which are acted upon by strong natural selection.
(12) In the present study, we determined variation in the copy number of 101 accessions of wild barley plants from 10 ecologically diverse sites in Israel and examined relationships between rDNA copy number and adaptedness.
(13) These alleles differ strikingly in their effects on adaptedness.
(14) These results have implications towards (i) the relation between population fitness and adaptedness, (ii) modes of selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies, and (iii) the evolution of senescence.
(15) The individual and joint effects on adaptedness of the rDNA alleles are discussed.
(16) The picture of evolutionary change that emerges is one in which the incorporation of increasing numbers of favorably interacting alleles into large synergistic complexes was accompanied in inbreeding populations by increases in adaptedness to the local environment and also by striking ecogenetic differentiation among local populations that occupy unlike habitats, including differentiation between cultivated plants and their wild progenitors.
Adaptorial
Definition:
(a.) Adaptive.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the discussion of the regulation of this adaptory system the possible effects of the plasma concentrations of both calcium and inorganic phosphate upon the intracellular Ca22+concentration in the kidney tubules must be considered.
(2) Thus, parathyroidectomized animals with persistently reduced plasma calcium showed a normal adaptory increase in intestinal calcium absorption upon chronically restricted calcium intake.
(3) This adaptory increase in the level of intestinal 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol was not disturbed by selective parathyroidectomy, nor the synthesis by the kidneys.