Sentences with phrase «animal size variation»

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Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

Do any other animals display the same amount of variation in size as humans among healthy adults?

But with such a large group of eggs, he says, researchers can make quantitative measurements to better understand the range of egg sizes and shapes to get a sense of variation in animal size.

In animals, scaling relationships between appendages and body size exhibit high interspecific variation but low intraspecific variation.

The nutritional environment of developing animals can generate dramatic variation in body size and shape, as well as in their developmental time.

When there is morphological variation within a dog breed, correlating animal health to phenotype is possible, as demonstrated by a recent post-mortem study of size and morbidity using 145 autopsies of Portuguese Water Dogs [44].