Sentences with phrase «abundant in»

While the toxins are likely to be most abundant in the air around lakes, they exist all over the planet, even in deserts.

Cone snails are abundant in most tropical marine waters, especially around coral reefs.

For hundreds of years, sandeel were abundant in these waters, providing the intense nutrition chicks need for quick growth in the short northern summer.

If all such compact dwarf galaxies are stripped, she argues, then their black holes may also be unexpectedly massive — meaning these behemoths are much more abundant in the universe than previously thought.

Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants.

One microRNA in particular, miR - 940, was highly abundant in the prostate cancer - derived exosomes and turned out to play a powerful role in promoting bone formation.

She speculates that grasshopper mice evolved their resistance to bark scorpion venom so that they could eat the arthropods, which are abundant in the Arizona desert where the mice live.

Out of the hundreds of bacteria that live there, two species that are usually abundant in a healthy mouth — Neisseria elongata and Streptococcus mitis — were significantly scarcer in people with pancreatic cancer.

In addition, substances called growth factors, produced naturally in the brain, were more abundant in key regions on both sides of the brain in optogenetically stimulated, stroke - affected mice than in their unstimulated counterparts.

Zircons, which are also abundant in the Earth's crust, form when lava cools.

When cancer cells proliferate, they appear to need the help of a protein called survivin: The protein is abundant in cancer cells but almost absent from normal cells.

The creature, a type of duck - billed dinosaur or hadrosaur, was abundant in the region about 70 million years ago.

In particular, the researchers found that a gene variant, COL4A5 - C, associated with longer beaks in both populations was more abundant in the U.K. birds.

They were abundant in terrestrial communities during the Early Permian period and are distant relatives of all the reptiles today.

«Amyloid - beta is a small protein that is abundant in the amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer's disease.»

Blue Whales were abundant in most oceans around the world up until the beginning of the 20th century.

So far they are most abundant in sediments,» says Eva Fernandez - Caceres, co-lead author from Uppsala University.

They found that 15 strains became more abundant in those that responded best to the diet (Science, doi.org/ck8w).

The researchers speculate that during the intense culturing attempts of the sugar samples in 1997, spores from the Ames Ancestor strain, which were likely to be abundant in the Porton Down military defense laboratory facilities, fell into the culture media and grew.

The study also revealed that Bilophila wadsworthia, a bacterium that produces hydrogen sulfide from the amino acid taurine, was significantly more abundant in African - Americans with colon cancer than in their healthy counterparts.

While nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere, it is not in a form plants can use, Subramanian explained.

Retroviruses are abundant in nature and include human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV - 1 and -2) and human T - cell leukemia viruses.

The researchers aren't yet certain which animals in the mesopelagic zone are creating the sound but small bony fish that are abundant in the zone are the most likely suspects, Baumann - Pickering said.

They are one of the few organisms that are abundant in Antarctica.

In his research published in the December issue of the journal Geology of the Geological Society of America, Czaja and his colleagues Nicolas Beukes from the University of Johannesburg and Jeffrey Osterhout, a recently graduated master's student from UC's department of geology, reveal samples of bacteria that were abundant in deep water areas of the ocean in a geologic time known as the Neoarchean Eon (2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago).

Analysis of gases trapped in mud pumped up from the borehole has shown that radon, carbon dioxide, and helium are more abundant in fault areas than in solid crust.

Recent research by neuroscientist Fred Gage and colleagues at the University of California (UC), San Diego, has shown that one of the most common types of jumping gene in people, called L1, is particularly abundant in human stem cells in the brain that ultimately differentiate into neurons and plays an important role in regulating neuronal development and proliferation.

Also characteristics of tumour cells such as a protein which is too abundant in the cell envelope are called antigens.

Omega - 3 fatty acids are abundant in fish, vegetable oils, nuts — especially walnuts, flax seeds, flaxseed oil and leafy vegetables.

The two researchers prepared a closed system of glass flasks and tubes and injected a gaseous mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water — four basic compounds thought to be abundant in Earth's primitive atmosphere.

They found that the goldsinny wrasse was up to 65 per cent more abundant in samples from the non-fishing zones.

Last year's review led scientists to conclude that the Japanese sea lion, which was once abundant in northeast Asia, is now extinct.

The corkwing wrasse was 92 per cent more abundant in some samples from the non-fishing zones.

An element that is abundant in the Earth's crust and oceans, the powerful, corrosive substance is considered essential to an array of products.

The altered rapeseed contains high levels of lauric acid, a fatty acid abundant in coconut and palm oil but rare in the seeds of plants that grow in temperate climates.

They found that archaea (pronounced ar - KEY - uh) were most abundant in subjects younger than 12 and older than 60.

«But the organisms that we detected as abundant in these biofilms appear to have characteristics that could be of interest because they are related to some bacteria that are opportunistic pathogens that could pose a threat, especially to immunocompromised hospital patients»

The ocean floor is richly abundant in tiny fossils of the calcified algae species Emiliania huxleyi.

Plants don't contain either, but precursors of these fatty acids are fairly abundant in flaxseed, canola oil, soybeans, and walnuts.

By contrast, the only unnatural component in aspartame is a methyl ester bond that connects phenylalanine and aspartic acid, two amino acids abundant in the human body.

While ordered forms of magnesium carbonate, both with and without water in the structure, are abundant in nature, water - free disordered forms have been proven extremely difficult to make.

THE PROBLEM Of the 10 or 15 molecules dedicated to cell division, only one accumulates with age: p16INK4a (p16 for short), which can be 100 times more abundant in the tissues of older people than in young people.

New theoretical work finds that despite these complications, water vapor could have been just as abundant in pockets of space a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today.

Quality soil is necessary — but not abundant in cities.

In 2014, he and his colleagues discovered that these molecules are unusually abundant in certain immune cells of mice with high blood pressure — and that the same is true in patients with hypertension.

Minkes are thought to be abundant in many of the areas earmarked for wind farm development, which can be noisy for days on end.

Abundant in the U.S. prior to World War II, bedbugs all but vanished during the 1940s and»50s thanks to improvements in hygiene and the use of pesticides.

Collagen is the main protein in connective tissue and is abundant in bone.

Using flow cytometry, in which fluorescent probes are used to detect IgA - coated bacterial species, the researchers discovered that IgA - coated E. coli were abundant in fecal samples from patients with both Crohn's disease and spondyloarthritis.

Masiello is an expert on how carbon behaves in soil, and she noticed a vexing problem in both the scientific literature and findings from her lab: Charcoal is abundant in soil, particularly in fertile regions like Europe's breadbasket and America's Corn Belt, but while it's clear that most soil charcoal came from wildfires, it wasn't at all clear why it stayed there so long or how it got into the soil after a fire.