Two kinds of adaptation aid infaunal bivalve mollusks in sustaining their life positions against potentially disruptive water movements: (1) ability to retard scour of surrounding sediment and (2) ...

The complexity of bacterial cells is discussed, together with an explanation of the advantages that can be provided by an organelle that sequesters related enzymes in a pathway. The carboxysome is ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Adaptive landscapes have served as fruitful guides to evolutionary research for nearly a century. Current methods guided by landscape ...