Sentences with phrase «described by biologist»

Professor Alfonso Martinez - Arias from the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, who led the research, says: «Gastrulation was described by biologist Professor Lewis Wolpert as being «truly the most important event in your life» because it creates the blueprint of an organism.

The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.

Around 6,600 species of harvestman have, so far, been described by biologists.

Not exact matches

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

There are important differences between the altruism observed by zoologists, and caritas as described by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).

This feather - tailed possum has also been spied before by eagle - eyed biologists, but it has yet to be described in the scientific literature.

So far, biologists have described and catalogued about 1.5 million animal species, a number that many think might be eclipsed by the number of species still awaiting discovery.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

Described by a spokesperson from NASA's Astrobiology Institute as «a revolution that will require its own revolution,» astrobiology draws on the expertise of astronomers and biologists, physicists, chemists, and geologists to understand the development of life in the universe.

That's how one biologist describes the experience of getting zapped by an electric eel.

In a third paper, a group led by molecular biologist Carlo Cogoni at the University of Rome describes a gene in a Neurospora fungus that is similar to the gene for RNAi in the worm.

But it already has a name: Blastulidium paedophthorum, coined by biologist C. Pérez when he described it in 1903.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

An international team of biologists led by Vlastimil Hart of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague was describing an experiment on dogs.

Meanwhile, in a separate study published online today in Science, an overlapping team at Genentech led by biologist Frederic de Sauvage describes the mechanism by which the man's brain tumor developed resistance.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

Some dog fanciers describe this behavior in terms used by biologists to explain wolf interactions — they toss around terms such as «pack dynamics» and «dominance hierarchy» to explain how dogs see the world.

Your journey will be rewarded with diving «the most incredibly well protected and flourishing reef I've ever seen» (as the area was described by Dr. David E. Guggenheim, an American marine biologist and senior fellow at the Ocean Foundation in Washington.)

[Oct. 2, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Updated Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch.

The film will also describe a coral propagation effort pursued by the Secore Foundation, Carmabi Foundation and Curaçao Sea Aquarium — in particular the work of Valérie F. Chamberland, a biologist who has spent nearly five years cultivating extremely endangered elkhorn coral in tanks and cementing them on boulders just offshore.

In my talk, I described the park as a positive example of what the biologist Erle C. Ellis calls «anthromes» — «ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.»

Here's a piece describing Barbuda's «Blue Halo» initiative, written by Arthur Nibbs, the chairman of the Barbuda Council and minister of fisheries of Antigua and Barbuda, and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and the Waitt Institute executive director (and National Geographic blogger):

Stotting is also used by biologists to describe the jumping behaviour of antelopes in response to predators.

The bunny slug species is Jorunna parva, and was first described by the renowned Japanese marine biologist Kikutaro Baba.