Life has evolved over billions of years, adapting to the changing environment. Similarly, enzymes—proteins that speed up ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled.

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 ...

This discovery sheds light on the evolution and adaptation of photosynthetic organisms and could potentially lead to new, highly efficient systems for producing renewable solar fuels. The research ...

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 ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

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 ...

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