Sentences with phrase «for vertebrate»

The zebrafish comes close to being the ideal model organism for vertebrate development because it appears to combine the best features of all the other models.

Transposons have become important tools for the vertebrate geneticist.

These globally - ubiquitous parasites can be an unsettling nuisance, but if it's any consolation, we now know they've been a pain in the ass for vertebrate life for eons.

Later, at the Max - Planck - Institute for Molecular Genetics he led a group in theDepartment for Vertebrate Genomics of Prof. Hans Lehrach.

Neuroscientists led by Qin Shen and Sally Temple, both of Albany Medical College in New York, wanted to see if the same holds true for vertebrate neural progenitor cells.

Motani presented his work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

Stuart Nixon of Fauna & Flora International (now at Chester Zoo where he has continued his analysis of the survey data), one of the co-authors involved in the study stated, «Grauer's gorilla is found only in the eastern Congo — one of the richest areas on our planet for vertebrate diversity.

The fossil record exhibits for us what is possible for vertebrate organisms, both in niche occupation and in biomechanical and morphological adaptations to these niches.

Funding was provided by the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics, Zweig Memorial Fund and Morris Animal Foundation.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long...

Brookesia micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes

Anemone will present the team's work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever - expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.

This finding indicates that ancient bacterial DNA may survive in some cases much beyond the one million year boundary suggested for vertebrate DNA.

Carolyn Gramling reports that members of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology and the Paleontology Society of Washington began gathering in D.C. around 9:30 a.m., sporting foam fingers and signs reading «Don't let science go extinct.»

We have discovered that they use tools in loose soil, that they use a kind of tool not previously described (grass stems), and that they hunt for vertebrates (lizards).

In addition, researchers assumed that the ancient equatorial regions were too hot for vertebrates to live during the Early Triassic.

Although scientists had begun to suspect that the standard mammalian model for sex determination wasn't the whole story for all vertebrates, «this study very clearly shows it for the first time certainly in birds,» says Craig Smith, a developmental biologist at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Parkville, Australia, whose team discovered DMRT - 1.

When they plugged individual species data for vertebrates that depend on the tropical forest for food and shelter and deforestation patterns from 1970 to 2008 into their model, it projected that 80 — 90 % of extinctions caused by previous rainforest loss are yet to come.

And, although the neonics are generally safe for vertebrates, birds and reptiles are already at risk from consequences of the accumulation of systemic pesticides.

Not exact matches

For the last 2 days, I have been having a conversation with Vertebrate Catholic (exorcism blog).

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

The experimental evidence that natural selection could build a vertebrate from an invertebrate, a mammal from a reptile, or a human from an ape is a bit less than the experimental evidence for superstring theory» that is, none at all.

This accounts for the tendency, which has been insufficiently noted, of every living phylum (insect and vertebrate) to group itself towards its latter end in socialized communities.

Oct. 28, 2013 — A James Cook University - National Geographic expedition to Cape York Peninsula in north - east Australia has found three vertebrate species new to science and isolated for millions of years

Furthermore, sensory receptors for these chemicals have been found in all vertebrates except cartilaginous fishes such as sharks.

Given a system or composite of individuals, all on a comparable level, for instance molecular or cellular, then in some cases, given integration of activities (thus molecules in a cell, or cells in a vertebrate animal), there may be what Leibniz called a «dominant monad» or what Whitehead calls a «society of presiding occasions.»

Managing Common Vineyard Vertebrate Pests with Roger Baldwin, Wildlife Specialist for the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology; University of California, Davis

With goals at a premium, clubs spend the summer months searching far and wide for any warm - blooded vertebrate that can send the ball in the back of the net with some kind of regularity.

And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

In «Evolution of the Eye,» Trevor Lamb draws together multiple lines of evidence to create a persuasive narrative for the early evolution of the vertebrate eye.

«Re-examination of old fossils using new techniques is just as important for revitalizing our understanding of vertebrate evolution.»

Two new members of a key pathway responsible for pattern formation during vertebrate development have been identified.

This is true not just for humans and other vertebrates but for squids and other cephalopods as well.

These fins were made for walking, and that's just what these fish do — thanks to wiring that evolved long before vertebrates set foot on land.

«Turtles are interesting because they offer an exceptional case to understand the big evolutionary changes that occurred in vertebrate history,» explains Dr. Naoki Irie, from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, who led the study.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

My colleague Victor DeFilippis of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of the Oregon Health and Science University and I suggested a third alternative: viruses may originate genes, then colonize two different lineages — for example, bacteria and vertebrates.

Many vertebrates tend to favor one side of the body over the other for certain tasks.

They've abandoned a way of life that has nourished vertebrates for some 500 million years.

Flammang agrees, saying what's most exciting about this is that it really underlines the idea that there is a vertebrate body plan that allows for changes that result in different kinds of animals, adding that the work «really unlocks a way of understanding the differences between organisms.»

Because skates are an evolutionarily ancient animal, that means the neurons essential for walking originated in species that separated from other four - legged vertebrates, or tetrapods, about 420 million years ago.

Collecting and cataloging fossil bones, the heart of vertebrate paleontology, has been primarily a historical enterprise, one of unearthing ancient information and looking for patterns.

This gallery highlights some of their discoveries, and shows what it takes for scientists to operate in one of the least hospitable places on Earth, which, as it turns out, played a key role in the evolution and migration of the planet's vertebrates, including mammals.

This kind of wiring, described in the current issue of Science, may be present in higher vertebrates, including humans — and if so, it might provide insights for scientists studying how to treat paralysis from spinal cord injuries.

Now they have $ 2.5 million in National Science Foundation funding in hand, and on 1 September they will launch their project: oVert, for «Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D.»

Sex - ratio - biasing constructs for the control of invasive lower vertebrates.