Sentences with phrase «as desiccation»
The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip...
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Disregard this, and the result is disproportion; and disproportion, as the Greeks knew, brings first chaos and then desiccation.»
In response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environment.
Genetic analysis of these tiny creatures, better known as water bears, is helping to unlock the mystery of how they can survive desiccation, and may also help to place them on the tree of life.
NO WATER, NO PROBLEM Known as water bears, tardigrades (one seen under a light microscope) are famous for withstanding desiccation.
And, in a postscript, he wonders why nobody is being held to account for these excesses — from the desiccation of the Aral Sea to Chernobyl — that have left millions of people, as well as the landscape, maimed.
The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.
The team is now investigating whether other organisms such as plant seeds rely on these proteins to survive desiccation, too.
The MIS 5a palaeosol is overlain by massive sands, representing a major change in the depositional regime, which we interpret as evidence for climatic desiccation at the start of the last glacial period (MIS 4), which would be consistent with other dated records for the region [13], [16], [18], [30].
Most important is to avoid all the Roundup - Ready GMO crops: corn, soy, sugar beets, canola oil, and cottonseed oil, as well as wheat and sugar cane, due to desiccation practices.
Once deposited in the soil, they are highly resistant to desiccation by environmental factors such as temperature extremes and sunlight and can remain viable for years.
This paper identifies astronomical and geological factors, as well as deforestation as contributing to desiccation.
Soil Desiccation - as a result of rising global areas under extreme drought and heatwave, was first observed in the 1990s.
In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.