Sentences with word «ecotype»

The colorful birds can be identified by their larger, deeper bills, but they also have different calls than the other ecotypes of crossbills.

«Their vocalization, their flight call, is how we can categorize the crossbill ecotypes in the absence if information on their bill sizes.»

These whales turned out to be the mammal - eating ecotype who feed on a variety of other marine mammals, one of which being, Steller Sea Lions.

«We took individuals from a mixed population of the striped versus the no - striped ecotype, and we transplanted them back into nature onto the two host plants in five different sets,» Egan said.

Differentiation among ecotypes may be driven by the distinction between a resource rich environment in shallower water, and a relatively resource poor environment deeper down the slope.

For example, the team found that many of the genetic differences were related to the biochemical function of metal ion binding, and metals are known to influence differences in pigmentation and mandible shape between the two T. cristinae ecotypes.

The other nine ecotypes exhibit the usual nomadic tendencies engaging in movements of up to 1,800 miles in search of plentiful conifer cone crops.

Unlike other migratory North American red crossbills, the South Hills crossbill is a permanent resident in this small mountain range, while other ecotypes regularly move through and even breed in the region.

For instance, one theory predicts that bacterial populations are genetically diverse because they adapt to their surrounding conditions on a very small - scale, local level, leading to the establishment of distinct subpopulations, called ecotypes.

They found that neither models of neutral drift, nor the concept of micro-niches of different ecotypes fit the data.

Transformation of Arabidopsis (ecotype Col - 0) and Nicotiana tabacum (Petit Havana SR - 1) was accomplished with Agrobacterium - mediated methods.

Through a process of precise hybridization, made possible with modern genome editing and reproductive technologies, we can produce a new hybrid generation of the passenger pigeon ecotype that carries a small but important genetic legacy of its extinct forebears.

Samples: SR1, Nicotiana tabacum wildtype control; NT4, tobacco line 4.1.1 (response to TNT shown in Figure 4); Col, Arabidopsis ecotype Columbia; AT1, second generation Arabidopsis line AT1.1.

Three genetically different killer whale ecotypes can be seen in the Monterey Bay: the mammal - eating transient killer whales, the fish and shark - eating offshore killer whales, and the salmon - eating Southern Resident killer whales.

«In an example of convergent evolution, one ecotype of the weed barnyardgrass (Eichochloa crus - galli var oryzicola L.) appears indistinguishable from domesticated rice (Oryza sativa L.),» said Professor Freckleton.

The other ecotype has no stripe and feeds on Ceanothus, a plant with wide green leaves where the stripe would stand out.

Although wild M. sieversii grows east of Tian Shan Mountain, in the Xinjiang region of China, the ecotype there was never cultivated, and did not contribute to the eastern domesticated hybrid.

One variety, or ecotype, feeds on the thin, needle - like leaves of a shrub called Adenastoma and features a distinct white stripe on its back that serves as camouflage.

Samples were collected at several geographic locations and were equally split between the ecotypes on the two host plants.

The team studied the genetic structure of 9 ecotypes of the red crossbill.

In many places in California, this species has split into two forms, or ecotypes, on a hillside.

They discovered many genetic differences between the ecotypes.

Dozens of those shifts coincided with the DNA differences between the ecotypes, signaling that those differences were due to selection, not chance.

Nosil and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of dozens of individuals of each ecotype from multiple hillsides to assess the genetic differences that arose to make them specialized for their particular host plant.

An ecotype is a genetically distinct population of a species inhabiting a specific geographic range, which exhibits a uniquely adapted ecology.

But there is a suitable definition for what we aim to produce: an ecotype.

An ecotype is a genetically distinct population of a species inhabiting a specific geographic range, which exhibits a uniquely adapted ecology.

But there is a suitable definition for what we aim to produce: an ecotype.

Ecotype A feeds mainly on minke whales, ecotype B on seals and emperor penguins, while ecotype C eats mainly fish, particularly the Antarctic toothfish.