Sentences with phrase «animal species»

Females and males of many animal species employ an array of tactics to stack the deck in their reproductive favor.

There are also some animal species — such as Tasmanian devils and domestic dogs — that are known to have transmissible cancer cells circulating within their populations.

When dust was scarce, forests could no longer support many of their plant and animal species.

The contributing authors are the principal investigators on each of the animal species cloned to date and are expertly qualified to present the state - of - the - art information in their respective areas.

Up to 30 percent of plant and animal species could face extinction if the global average temperature rises more than roughly 3 to 5 °C.

This makes up more than 80 % of all known animal species!

Sestrins are stress - inducible proteins that are found in most animal species.

For this reason, marine biology and microbiology researchers are working to discover new animal species and organisms, all the while further expanding the depths of geography and science.

What happens when an animal species goes extinct?

Conversely, manipulations that lower IGF - 1 levels in many animal species slow their rates of aging, reduce the risks of age - related disease and extend their lifespans.

«Hotspot of biodiversity as a characteristic of the Balkans was put forward by biogeographers to indicate that most of the plant and animal species that repopulated the continent after glaciations came from the Balkans,» Roksandic explained.

There, millions of years ago, animal species evolved to walk upright on two legs.

This impacts people's livelihoods and threatens a wide range of plant and animal species.

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

testes (singular: testis) Organs in the males of many animal species that makes sperm, the reproductive cells that fertilize eggs.

Bringing back the passenger pigeon will restore the dynamic forest regeneration cycles that dozens of presently declining plant and animal species need to thrive.

Our wet - lab research is focused on the study of Brucella, a facultative intracellular bacterium that causes brucellosis, one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world in humans and a variety of animal species.

Invasive species are also the second greatest cause of plant and animal species loss globally.

Many scientists have long considered the length of the food chain in the open sea to be relatively stable, with roughly the same animal species feeding on each other through time.

Studies of fossils found (or not found) across the boundary between these two periods — abbreviated the K - Pg boundary — show that some three out of every four plant and animal species went extinct at about the same time.

domesticate (n.) A wild plant or animal species that has been bred into a tame version, usually over many generations.

Once thought to be exclusive to humans, scientists have recognized signs of culture in several other animal species, including dolphins and primates.

It's been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species, and now researchers think Markov modeling could one day help a woman and her physician...

When winter comes and outdoor plants go dormant, students will investigate biodiversity in the world's tropical regions, simulate how animal species depend on rainforest plants for survival, and make clones from common houseplants.

Because no kakusei homolog had been identified in any other animal species, including insects, however, we first amplified parts of kakusei cDNA from the Japanese honeybee using primers designed from the European honeybee kakusei cDNA sequences.

Other plant and animal species have efficient mechanisms to eliminate such repetitive DNA, but these do not seem to operate so well in conifers.

PBPK modeling is used in pharmaceutical research and development and in health risk assessment to predict the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a compound in humans and other animal species.

We support a rare assembly of plant and animal species — including 200 - year old American oak trees and wetlands that are home to the blue - spotted salamander — and contributes significantly to the protection of the area's water resources, air quality and carbon sequestration.

Diverse animal species can detect such weak magnetic fields and use them to navigate.

The state aims to protect 56 plant and animal species as part of its plan, including Chinook salmon that swim upstream through the delta to spawn.

This change was the driving force for evolutionary explosions that made life more diverse and laid the foundations for all future animal species.

While the detrimental effects of early weaning have been studied in some other animal species, no studies on the topic have been conducted on cats, despite suspicions of its connection to feline behavioural problems.

Many zoos work hard to protect and breed endangered animal species in captivity, and they spend a lot of money doing so.

The ZSM is a project partner and involved in assembling DNA barcodes of the German animal species.

Based on the fossils of extinct animal species, he had postulated as early as 1794 that all life had originated from small, microscopic mollusks.

Influenza A viruses can cause devastating pandemics when they are transmitted to humans from pigs, birds, or other animal species.

The difference in climate means the plant and animal species in both forests have evolved along two very different paths.

Studies on other animal species have produced similar results.

Examining thousands of pairs of species, the scientists looked to see how often a particular pair of plant or animal species was found within the same community.

Ongoing comparative analysis will provide insights to help us understand gene function across all large animal species, including humans.»

Between 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species face extinction by the end of the century, according to the IPCC report.

For animal species that can not be distinguished using their external characteristics, genetic techniques such as DNA barcoding can help to identify cryptic species.

Some animal species look so alike that external characteristics do not provide sufficient information about whether they belong to the same species or not.

Museums of Natural History are an important source of evidences of existing variety and diversity of animal species.

«The animal species themselves on the other hand can certainly tell the difference, as it is crucial for their reproductive success,» says Sylvia Ritter, PhD student from the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ.

«Alzheimer's is a condition that is hard to model in other animal species, so that was very exciting.»

All the analyses indicate that land plants first appeared about 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, when the development of multicellular animal species took off.

Although T. brucei gambiense has also been found in various wild and domestic animal species, these are usually considered sporadic, «dead - end» hosts, from which the disease isn't transmitted further.

The link between ecology and parenting style has been «hard to disentangle» in any animal species, Summers says.

But the conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has devastated a huge number of plant and animal species, including tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans.