Sentences with phrase «genus includes»

The Allium genus includes garlic, onions, shallots, scallions, chives and leeks.

The Pheidole ant genus includes more than a thousand species, all of which contain worker ants with oversized heads and jaws that allow them to break up food.

The Vitex genus includes some 250 species.

More recently in geological time, the climatic warming at the last glacial - interglacial transition was coincident with the extinction of 72 percent of the large - bodied mammals in North America, and 83 percent of the large - bodied mammals in South America — in total, 76 genera including more than 125 species for the two continents (Barnosky and Lindsey, 2010; Brook and Barnosky, 2012; Koch and Barnosky, 2006).

Not exact matches

Various species of cactus were collected and eaten, including the fruits from the huge saguaros, but the most commonly used cacti were the varieties of the genus Opuntia, the prickly pears.

Currently, 82 species of mammalian pollinators, including bats, 103 species of avian pollinators and one reptile are considered threatened or extinct according to IUCN criteria, the ratio of threatened vertebrate pollinators to the total numbers of vertebrates in their genera being extremely high.

Fonterra said a product had tested positive in spring for Clostridium — the genus of bacteria which includes Clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism — but because most Clostridium strains are harmless it had had to carry out further tests to assess whether there was a risk.

Racers who find peace and happiness at 70 mph are a breed unto themselves, although of the genus that includes bullfighters and cliffdivers.

Although the common name «black widow spider» is most commonly used to refer to the three North American species best known for their dark coloration and red hourglass pattern, it is occasionally also applied to several other members of the Latrodectus (widow spider) genus in which there are 31 recognized species including the Australian red - back, brown widow spider (sometimes called the gray widow), and the red widow spider.

The Toxorhynchites mosquito genus, however, which includes some of the largest species, doesn't bite anyone or anything, getting everything it needs from nectar.

More than 98 percent of the enzyme - producing microbes belong to the Gammaproteobacteria class, which includes E. coli and about 250 bacterial genera.

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

In addition to being tiny, the bones display traits that are typically associated with earlier members of our genus, including pronounced browridges and a nonprojecting chin.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

With the assistance of Global Explorer, a ROV equipped with a high definition color video camera and digital still camera, the researchers were able to snap some of the first pictures of numerous species that are believed to be new to science, including this red medusa jellyfish, which belongs to the genus Atolla.

Prior to this study, these thin - limbed, lightly built horses were thought to be related to the Asiatic wild ass or onager, or simply a separate species within the genus Equus, which includes living horses, asses, and zebras.

«Her data demonstrated that the Vitex lineage includes several other genera previously treated separately from Vitex.

As part of the genus Populus, which includes poplars and cottonwoods, they are known for their fast growth and ability to adapt to diverse environments — two qualities that make them prime candidates for cellulosic ethanol.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

One of their descendants, the Paranthropus genus, had massive chewing muscles that enabled them to eat tough foods, including nuts.

The genera found include human fecal and vaginal bacteria as well as those that live on human skin, Fierer says.

Christian Rabeling, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, says that although the study furthers our understanding the evolutionary history of the Formica genus, the family tree included less than 10 % of the 175 known species, a major limitation.

These seeps support an entirely different community of animals, including anemones, tubeworms in the genera Lamellibrachia and Escarpia, and broad, white mats of bacteria.

Perversely, the branching organisms isolated by Nocard from cattle on Guadeloupe is not now included in the genus.

Mammals encompass some 5,500 species (including humans), distributed in about 1,200 genera, 152 families and up to 46 orders, though this varies with the classification scheme.

Others include species of orb weaver, especially those from the genus Celaenia, says spider expert Robert Whyte.

Heels were also home to many additional fungi, including the genera Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula, and Epicoccum.

Back in England, Darwin pored over his notes and studied the birds, beetles, and fossils — including an extinct giant ground sloth of the genus Megatherium — that he had gathered on his voyage.

Dr Fry's team studied the venom of 16 tiger snake populations from across Australia including five island populations in the Bass Strait, and venoms from 11 other snakes in related genera.

The genus contains three species, and numerous natural and cultivated origin hybrids, including commercially important fruit such as the orange, lemon, grapefruit, lime, and tangerine.

The Actinobacteria phylum includes Corynebacterium and Propionibacterium; each genus was found in the ISS samples at a high level, which is «problematic,» says Venkateswaran, because they both have species that are opportunistic pathogens.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

Subsequent surveys by Taylor's team have turned up droplets in larvae in several genera of crabs in sites including Pensacola, Florida, and Galveston, Texas.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) and extinct species including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo naledi are part of the Homo genus.

Callaway reports that the genetic record shows interbreeding between various members of the Homo genus, including H. sapiens with Homo neanderthalis, but only in regions around the Mediterranean and in western Europe.

The human lineage, the genus Homo, and its close relatives, including australopithecines such as the famed Lucy, are together referred to as hominins.

Snow's colleagues at the Smithsonian Insitution, Drs. Paul Peterson and Konstantin Romaschenko, included a molecular phylogenetic analysis of 21 individuals of Diplachne, which indicated that while the genus is monophyletic, some accessions of the four subspecies of D. fusca are in fact polyphyletic.

In the study, scientists revised the genus Macrochelys, often called the «dinosaurs of the turtle world» by lay people, to include Macrochelys temminkii and the two new species, Macrochelys apalachicolae and Macrochelys suwanniensis.

For instance, the origin of the Panthera genus — which includes tigers and lions — is now thought to be 16.4 million years ago, in contrast to the previous estimate of 6.4 million years ago.

A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at different rates for different species, especially during the evolution of Homo, the genus that includes humans, chewing teeth tended to evolve at more similar rates.

The grass genus Diplachne only includes two species, but it the does not fall short when it comes to remarkable features.

The measurement data prove that the feature is inherited in a similar way in all primates — humans included — and varies across different species and genera in a way that mirrors the evolutionary relationships worked out earlier by analyzing bones and comparing genes.

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.

Despite superficial resemblance to an already existing freshwater crab genus, at second glance, the crab turned out to be quite distinct thanks to a unique set of features including the carapace, the gonopod and the relatively long and slender legs.

The new species belongs to the genus Solanum, which includes some 1,500 species of mostly poisonous plants, including nightshades, but also three economically important, global food crops: tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants — the last of which is most closely related to S. cordicitum, Bohs says.

Even the genus name, Kootenichela, includes the reference to this film as «chela» is Latin for claws or scissors.

The Solanaceae family, including the genus Solanum, is known as the nightshade family, and many of the plants are toxic, hallucinogenic or medicinal, although others — like tomatoes, potatoes and chili peppers — are edible.

Members of the genus Helicoprion were first described in 1899, but fossils have been notoriously incomplete, with most including only spiral groupings of teeth.

With the abundance of maize grown throughout the world, it is not surprising that the crop has many insect pests, including larvae of the genus Spodoptera.

Its distinguishing characters include: the structure of its hard upper shell, as well as its male abdominal structure and reproductive parts, and of course, its diagnostic elongated walking legs, which no other genus has.