Sentences with phrase «ancient lineage»

The vents host evolutionarily ancient lineages of microorganisms and may have been a cradle supporting early life on the planet.

Both come from ancient lineages in Turkey, but the Kangal is native to the Kangal District of Sivas Province in Turkey while the Anatolian Shepherd is native to the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey.

So she and postdoc Joseph Lachance, along with a multinational team, sequenced the DNA of three hunter - gatherer groups living in Africa today: the Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania and the Pygmies from Cameroon, some of the most ancient lineages in the world.

However, new research led by the University of Bristol has identified the cause of this «flip - flop» effect, and in doing so, has revealed sponges are the most ancient lineage.

But instruments that have been honed over the years take on a life of their own; unlike UK civil servants they have a much more ancient lineage.

Contending that the entire historical development portrayed in the Old Testament from the creation of the world through the course of the Jewish race found its clue in Jesus, they claimed for their faith an antiquity which proved an asset in meeting the charge that Christianity was an ephemeral child of yesterday and without that dignity of ancient lineage possessed by the philosophies of Greece.

According to Dr. Yehu Moran, «Our research shows that while the venoms of ancient lineages evolve more slowly through purifying selection, the venoms in more recent lineages diversify rapidly under the influence of positive selection.»

Mimi, it turns out, belongs to its own distinct and extremely ancient lineage of large DNA viruses.

This illustration in a fish with a proven ancient lineage of a highly evolved system controlling variations in heart rate suggests that its evolution was necessarily linked to the advent of air breathing over primitive vertebrate lungs rather than the much later appearance of mammals.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

How are ancient lineages related, and what are the genetic mechanisms that underlie the differences between them?»

In spite of his youthful history, the Labrala has some pretty ancient lineage that includes the Labrador retriever who dates back to 19th century Newfoundland where he was used as a working dog on fishing boats as well as the Vizsla who comes from Hungary and dates back almost a thousand years where he was used for hunting in Central Europe.

The Dalmatian is most certainly a dog of very ancient lineage that has come through the centuries virtually unchanged.

With rising interest in wellness comes responsibility to preserve the traditions and knowledge our teachers and our teachers» teachers shared with us — many of them come from ancient lineages that deserve reverence and proper acknowledgment, even if they are mysterious or unknown to you.

Because hydrothermal systems house life's most ancient lineages, many biologists think that the first organisms arose there.

It is this this ancient lineage that makes TANDUAY the original Asian rum brand.

The ancient lineage of man's best friend is kind of a tangled mess.

«It's exciting evidence for a previously unrecognised species within the ancient lineage of Amazon river dolphins,» says Scott Baker of Oregon State University in Newport.

«We found a single variant that shows how three ancient lineages came together about 48,000 years ago, plus or minus only a couple of hundred years.

«The finding of an ancient lineage that is present in Europeans and Near Easterners but not elsewhere in Eurasia was a major surprise of our study.

It is descended from an ancient lineage and is a simple organism with patches of apparent complexity.

«In the same way that the genome sequence of the platypus — a survivor of an ancient lineage — can help us study the evolution of all mammals, the genome sequence of Amborella can help us learn about the evolution of all flowers,» said Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo.

In the ancient lineage of paleognath birds (such as tinamous, ostriches and kiwis) the intermedium comes closer to the anklebone, producing a dinosaur - like pattern.

Another unexpected result was that honeybees seem to be derived from an ancient lineage of cavity - nesting bees that arrived from Asia around 300,000 years ago and rapidly spread across Europe and Africa.

This newly discovered species of otter, Siamogale melilutra, belongs to an ancient lineage of extinct otters that was previously known only from isolated teeth recovered from Thailand.

Hakawai melvillei is extinct, but its ancient lineage and close relationships show how all these birds have a common ancestry in East Gondwana, before the landmass subsequently split up and New Zealand became isolated.

«We knew that the Yamnaya had this big genetic component that we couldn't place, and we can now see it was this ancient lineage hiding in the Caucasus during the last Ice Age,» said Manica.

Within a few thousand years, many of the ancient lineages had already diverged from one another, meaning that people from one group were not having babies with people from another (or at least, their mothers weren't moving around, since we're talking about mitochondrial DNA).

However, while most fish in the sea have bones, one ancient lineage — sharks, skates and rays — possess skeletons made entirely of cartilage.

The Ganges river dolphin is not only the only member of its genus, but of its family, Plantanistidae, representing an ancient lineage in the order Cetartiodactyla.

One of the most famous «living fossils» and one of only a few venomous mammals, the Hispaniolan Solenodon is one of the last representatives of an ancient lineage of shrew like mammals that lived with dinosaurs from 76 million years ago.

This ancient lineage of humans went extinct about 40,000 years ago, about the same time modern humans expanded across the world.

Unlike HSV1, however, the earliest proto - humans did not take HSV2 with them when our ancient lineage split from chimpanzee precursors around 7 million years ago.

It is unfortunate that students who have not yet matured in their own practice have changed the method and have cut out the essence of an ancient lineage to accommodate their own limitations.

A dog of ancient lineage, the Irish water spaniel can be traced back to the days when spaniels were divided into land and water varieties.

But it is just as likely that admixture of other breeds in the intervening five thousand years has blurred the DNA finger print of those breeds to the point where currently available tools can't detect the ancient lineage.

The Shar Tzu is the result of crossing a Shih Tzu with a Shar - Pei and while they have ancient lineage; Shih Tzu dates back to Tibet around the year 800 and the Chinese Shar Pei goes back to 200 BC China, the Shar Tzu himself is a little more recent.

Despite their ancient lineage, Shar - Peis became well - known in the United States only in the early 1970s, when they were touted as a rare breed and a focused campaign to appeal to fanciers began.

With its roots in Turkestan, the Kangal comes from an ancient lineage of mastiffs, guarding livestock such as sheep against large predators.

Both of these fine breeds come from an ancient lineage of herding dogs in Turkey, and though they may share several similarities, they are also recognized as separate breeds.

In spite of its ancient lineage, the speedy hunter was not introduced to the United States until 1956, where it gained entrance to the American Kennel Club (AKC) in 1979.

There is a controversy surrounding the breed: some claim that today's dogs are descended from the ancient lineage, while others say that the modern version is a recreation and that the original breed went extinct long ago.

Recent DNA studies have cast some doubt on this story of ancient lineage, however, suggesting the Ibizan is a much more recent breed, so at present, the Ibizan's roots are unclear.

An Anatolian Shepherd Dog is a rugged, imposing flock guardian of ancient lineage.

Although the breed has an ancient lineage, the Turkish Van is a relative newcomer to the United States, arriving in 1982.

Under conventional equal protection principles, a state interest of this magnitude and ancient lineage might well overcome an equal protection objection to the application of peremptory challenges.