The adaptations of organisms allow them to thrive in different habitats, including extreme environments. Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to ...

Adaptation: The process by which organisms evolve to increase fitness following natural selection. Energetics: The amount and manner in which energy is obtained and used. Community structure ...

Organisms inhabit nearly every environment ... or going dormant until cooler temperatures returns. Some temperature adaptations can be surprising. For example, scientists recently found that ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

This discovery sheds light on the evolution and adaptation of photosynthetic organisms and could potentially lead to new, ...

First-year pre-medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) had the opportunity to identify and collect ...

Our research programs have relevance for global change, conservation biology, the spread of diseases, and revealing fundamental mechanisms underlying the structural and functional adaptations of ...

Symbiotic relationships develop through coevolution -- reciprocal adaptations between interacting ... but also relationships in which one organism benefits and the other does not, or where neither ...

Our high-standard international research groups investigate developmental regulation and cell signalling in plants and animals, the adaptation of organisms to stress and its effect on the survival of ...