Sentences with phrase «largest evolutionary study»

«Largest evolutionary study of sponges sheds new light on animal evolution.»

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Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), co-author of the study, added: «Our large and refined data set allows us to build a clearer picture of evolutionary history.

EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposable elements in the human genome.

We plan on using it to study other large - scale evolutionary patterns such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

For many years it remained hidden among the largest fossil collection in South Africa at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University.

«We have a large dataset,» says study coauthor Laura Shannon, an evolutionary geneticist at Cornell University who collaborated with an international team on the project.

«This study gives us a better understanding of how living in an unpredictable environment can influence the population density of large animals that spend the majority of their time in tress,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University.

Moreover, such large trees are very useful for future studies of large - scale evolutionary patterns, such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

«When hunting herring, the whales travel in large groups and vocalize a lot,» says Andrew Foote, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen, and lead author of the new study.

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

That's part of the Thrash Lab's larger research goal: to apply the Gulf of Mexico cultivars towards large - scale microbial biogeography and evolutionary studies.

«By taking into account the large amount of data presented and the scarce information available up to date, we are convinced that it will open a new perspective in the research of mitochondrial DNA - related diseases, as well as in population studies, and evolutionary and forensic field,» concludes research director Maria Pilar Aluja.

The study, he says, demonstrates that the painstaking task of recreating evolutionary family trees for genera with large numbers of species is well worth the effort.

This unexpected large evolutionary distance between these two geographic groups of the Asian Black Bear probably deserves further study.

In the largest study to date examining the DNA of termite gut microbes, researchers at the Evolutionary Genomics Unit at OIST, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Sydney, have an answer that unites both sides of the debate — vboth.

In a study, which appears in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature, the team constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32,000 species of flowering plants - the largest time - scaled evolutionary tree to date.

Larger telescopes access significantly more sources and provide the majority of the most valuable high - redshift sources that support the evolutionary studies of galaxies, the CGM and IGM, and AGN (Chapter 4).

In a large - scale genomic study, published in Science today, a team of researchers led by Uppsala University found that this behaviour might be rooted in their genetic make - up, revealing a likely common evolutionary path that allows for separating populations into novel species.

There is also an evolutionary puzzle: if glycine deficiency is a serious problem in all large animals, as these studies suggest, why has it not been overcome by natural selection?

Louis (1989), drawing upon a large - scale survey and case studies of effective schools initiatives in urban secondary schools (Louis and Miles, 1990) identified four district - level approaches to school improvement varying in terms of the uniformity of process and outcomes intended: implementation strategy; evolutionary planning; goal - based accountability; and professional investment.

Other scientists say rodents, thanks to their large numbers, are commonly used in studies of such evolutionary transitions.

A popular perspective that researchers have adapted to study humor's role in attraction has been sexual selection (part of the larger evolutionary theoretical perspective).