Sentences with phrase «for small organisms»

Success of this project will provide answers to a number of major evolutionary questions, and will help develop innovative third - generation sequencing approaches for small organisms with large genomes, said Johanna Cannon.

With feeding arms «adapted to grope for small organisms living in anoxic mud» and a cutting beak «appropriate for an opportunistic scavenger», the animal expends little energy in hunting and feeding.

Not exact matches

The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.

This synthetic power of transforming small «building stones» into the complicated compounds specific for each organism is the «secret of life» or rather one of the secrets of life.6

Complete certainty exists among essentially all biochemists that the other characteristics of living organisms (for example, selective permeability across all membranes, muscle contraction, and the hearing and memory process) will all be completely understood in terms of the coordinative interactions of large and small molecules.2

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

The ZEISS Lightsheet Z. 1 microscope includes a life - support chamber that can hold entire organisms — a fruit fly or even a small octopus, for example — dangling in front of the objective, and permits easy rotation for a better point of view.

That pint - size genetic blueprint, the smallest for any known free - living cell, is a milestone in a decades - long effort to create an organism containing just the bare essentials necessary to exist and reproduce.

As such, they were able to use fossil records to assess the baseline extinction risk for marine animals, including sharks, whales and dolphins, as well as small sedentary organisms such as snails, clams and corals.

Swarming among unicellular organisms often precedes sexual reproduction because it rapidly increases population density in a small area, whereas it would be much rarer for two choanoflagellates to spontaneously encounter each other and mate under normal conditions.

PAHs could stunt growth, an effect that could ripple through the ecosystem: smaller organisms are picked off by predators at a young age, leaving less food for larger fish such as red snapper and bluefin tuna.

Xue said C. elegans is an ideal organism to use in the hunt for new therapeutics to treat nerve damage because of its relatively small, well - known genome and short life span — just a few days.

This year, scientists peering closely at RNAi in two different organisms were startled to find that small RNAs responsible for RNAi wield tremendous control over the shape of chromatin.

Many have compared the gathering to the 1975 gathering in Asilomar, California, where a small group of biologists debated then - new but much cruder techniques for recombining DNA sequences and famously called for a moratorium on such work until concerns over the accidental release of genetically modified organisms were resolved.

The authors say using modern technologies can be just as effective in identifying an organism and will also avoid increasing the extinction risk for small populations.

New research shows that, no matter where we're buried, the same bacteria, fungi, and other small organisms in the soil ransack our bodies, as if they were just waiting for our corpses to arrive.

«Our findings for this study provide important starting points for using small molecule imaging techniques to explore MAO - B further at the organism level, and in fact, opens up future prospects for non-invasive imaging - based diagnostic applications,» said Dr Li Lin, the first author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow in Prof Yao's lab.

Crustaceans, mussels and predatory fish as well as many smaller organisms that are important for the Baltic Sea ecosystem thrive in submarine Fucus forests.

A small decrease in pH affects the chemical equilibrium of seawater, making it harder for organisms to build calcium carbonate structures.

Many scientists are interested in studying these small - genome organisms for practical reasons.

Small changes in an organism's metabolic performance can have major consequences for its success in its natural habitat, where it is in competition with other species and faces losses from predation or viral infection.

Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists and biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Auckland.

At just under 600,000 bases, M. genitalium sports the smallest known genome for a free - living organism, and Venter hoped that an artificial genome could be modified to turn the bacterium into a living chemical - manufacturing plant.

Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.

Sequencing devices take long strings of a person's DNA and randomly chop them into small pieces that can be individually analyzed to determine their sequence of letters from the genetic code (A, C, G and T representing the four key components of DNA that code for protein production in living organisms: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine).

«Gently rotating small organisms, cells for the first time in a microfluidic device.»

«Cleaning» parasites or fouling organisms from the body of many cooperating fish, or removal of undesired food particles by certain small and colorful shrimps has been known for nearly 60 years, but never has a hermit crab been documented to engage in such type of ecological association.

«It's a great illustration of the critical importance of fossils big and small for understanding the diversity of organisms.»

We can search for evidence of cells preserved in rocks, or at a much smaller scale: compounds called biosignatures are molecular fossils, specific compounds that give some indication of the organisms that created them.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant biology.

Working together with colleagues in Spain, Japan and Australia, researchers led by Luis Serrano, ICREA research professor and leader of the Design of Biological Systems laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, focused their attention on the organisation of DNA within an organism with an extremely small genome — the pneumonia pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

Fruit flies are small insects that are often used for genetic research as they reproduce quickly, are easy to breed in laboratory conditions and share many of the same fundamental mechanisms and pathways found in more complex organisms such as humans.

Dubbed model - organism ENCODE (modENCODE), this new focus will apply innovative methods and technologies for the study of gene regulation to the smaller, and therefore more manageable, genomes of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the round worm (Caenorhabditis elegans).

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

Lawson will work with colleagues at the NEFSC to focus on the development of acoustic techniques for sampling zooplankton (animals that are suspended or drift in the water) and micronekton (small but actively swimming organisms) for ecosystem assessment.

Over time, the mouse has become the preferred organism for research into mammalian genetics because of its rapid generation time, small size and the ease with which it can be bred.

The laboratory mouse, small and easy to breed, has long been biologists» favorite model organism for studying mammalian development.

NASA says that Curiosity has found evidence to suggest that Gale Crater was once filled with lakes, rivers, and deltas that contained water for tens of millions of years — long enough that some small organisms could have emerged.

While 140 million pieces might sound like a lot, Arabidopsis has the smallest genome of any flowering plant, which is the main reason it was selected as a model organism for genome sequencing.

Since it invests its energy in a warm, dull, muggy condition, the penis can turn into a safe place for microscopic organisms and other small scale life forms that can prosper into disagreeable diseases, or in any event, cause an upsetting odor.

Wise used a cast of unknowns for this film about a team of scientist that descend upon a small New Mexico town where a U.S. satellite has crashed and unleashed a deadly alien organism that kills the residents.

For Farber, Rivette's film was «a new organism, the atomization of a character, an event, a space, as though all of its small spaces had been de-solidified to allow air to move amongst the tiny spaces» — a description that applies just as well to Farber's porous, slippery sentences.

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Because cats only shed the organism for a few days in their entire life, the chance of human exposure is small.

Many of these organisms remain small in size and, therefore, they make perfect inhabitants for aquariums ranging in size from five to 16 gallons.

Only small amounts of DNA are needed for PCR, and the DNA can be collected from samples that either contain only a few live (including slow - growing) bacteria or that do not harbor any living organisms.

Microscopes are set up for observation of smaller organisms.

Apart from providing a food source for some beneficial organisms; being porous, they contain numerous tiny holes which help to both aerate the bin and offer hiding places for other smaller insects.

Some of the smaller calcifying organisms are important food sources for higher marine organisms.