the state of two or more things adapting to one another
coadaptation in American English
(ˌkouædəpˈteiʃən)
noun
1. Biology
the correlation of structural or behavioral characteristics in two or more interacting organisms in a community or organs in an organism resulting from progressive accommodation by natural selection
2. Also called: integration Genetics
the accumulation in a population's gene pool of genes that interact by harmonious epistasis in the development of an organism
Derived forms
coadaptational
adjective
coadaptationally
adverb
Word origin
[1830–40; co- + adaptation]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baby talk, orientation, paraffin, rococo, stroboscopeco- is a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” sometimes with the derivedsense “auxiliary, subsidiary” (coenzyme; copilot), and, in mathematics and astronomy, with the sense “complement” (codeclination)
Examples of 'coadaptation' in a sentence
coadaptation
In contrast to other studies in this species we found little evidence for cytonuclear coadaptation.
Zieba Jennifer T, S Velázquez Claudia, Harrison J, Dimond Leilani, Pritchard VictoriaL, Burton Ronald S, Edmands Suzanne 2011, 'Interpopulation hybridization results in widespread viability selection across thegenome in Tigriopus californicus', BMC Geneticshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/12/54. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It reflects a population's state of adaptation and genomic coadaptation.
John H. Graham, Bariş Özener 2016, 'Fluctuating Asymmetry of Human Populations: A Review', Symmetryhttp://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/8/12/154. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Overfitting was hindered by noise injection and dropout, limiting coadaptation of hidden units.
Ilia Korvigo, Andrey Afanasyev, Nikolay Romashchenko, Mikhail Skoblov 2018, 'Generalising better: Applying deep learning to integrate deleteriousness predictionscores for whole-exome SNV studies.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5851551?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
More generally, the present work supports the hypothesis of coadaptation of gene complexes within the viral genomes.
Fernando Escriu, Aurora Fraile, Fernando García-Arenal 2007, 'Constraints to genetic exchange support gene coadaptation in a tripartite RNA virus.',PLoS Pathogenshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1781478?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)