Sentences with phrase «across vertebrate»

Although there is obvious variation in brain organization across vertebrate species, the basic brain blueprint has remained remarkably stable for millions of years, as have the mechanistic principles associated with how it regulates various functions, including behavior.

Sallan et al. looked across vertebrate species during and after the Devonian extinction (see the Perspective by Wagner).

«We suggest that this relationship is found across all vertebrates with bony skulls and indicates a deep developmental relationship between the brain and the skull roof,» Bhullar said.

«Immune responses to fungi are similar across vertebrates and many animals are capable of learning to avoid natural enemies,» Rohr emphasized.

Across vertebrates, 16 to 33 percent of all species are estimated to be globally threatened or endangered.

«We hope to find out whether or not a similar ground pattern of organization occurs across the vertebrates, and whether that pattern also includes these highly abundant proteins,» Strausfeld said.

UCE has been available since 2012, yet scientists are just beginning to tap its potential for generating enormous amounts of genetic data across vertebrates.

«There has been a lot of recent research showing that these behaviors — like aggression or reproduction or parental care — are sort of ubiquitously distributed across vertebrates, and the mechanisms that promote and maintain those behaviors are similar in all species,» DeAngelis said.

Gene duplications and subsequent mutations also led to the evolution of numerous sister nonapeptides across vertebrates, including isotocin in teleost fish and oxytocin in mammals.

A highly conserved set of ∼ 1,000 proteins is shared across vertebrates.

Not exact matches

Planetary cues, such as magnetic inclination and moon phase, guide northern elephant seals and other large vertebrates over long distances and across time.

The enzymes involved in the dopamine synthesis are conserved across species boundaries in invertebrates and vertebrates.

Over the next 4 years, Blackburn will lead an effort to CT scan more than 20,000 vertebrate specimens, representing 80 % of all genera, from 16 museum and university collections across the United States.

Showed that the four genes that were significantly down - regulated have evolutionarily conserved miR -124-3p binding sites across a wide range of higher vertebrate species.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

To study evolution across a major vertebrate class, dissect the genomics of complex traits, and resolve a centuries - old debate on the avian species tree, we formed a consortium focused on the sequencing and analyses of at least one genome per avian order.

With the propensity for an even distribution across a vast geographic area, biostratigraphic data for other vertebrates can be enhanced dramatically.

«Then I was digging into the scientific literature on flying and gliding vertebrates for a totally different project, and I came across a paragraph in a textbook that said flying squirrels have a strut of cartilage attached to either the wrist or elbow to help support the flight membrane.

identify molecular, cellular, and anatomical similarities in how these molecules work across species that represent the fundamental principles through which brain neurochemistry affects social behavior in vertebrates.

Design / Methods The underlying cause of these behavioral disruptions is hypothesized to be caused by alterations of ion gradients across the GABAA receptor, the major inhibitory neurotransmitter found throughout the vertebrate nervous system.

In a study out by Shi and colleagues this week, researchers identified 214 new viruses that, as the authors so succinctly state, reveal «diverse virus - host associations across the entire evolutionary history of the vertebrates».

But even so, «we were still expecting to see some effects associated with isolation within a water matrix because, for example, liana seed dispersal across water may have been affected by the severe reduction in vertebrate dispersers seen across the archipelago,» said Jones.

This paper alleges that after analysing over 300 species (across 3 groups: plants, insects and vertebrates) between 1970 - 2012, that «Climatic change has had a wide range of impacts on species, with more species impacted positively than negatively in the short - term at least», with climate change the «largest positive impact».