Sentences with phrase «higher vertebrates»

Assuming that we survive another 100 years, the only other higher vertebrates around will be domesticated.

They don't have the brain structure — a developed neocortex where pain occurs in higher vertebrates.»

Among higher vertebrates, one manifestation of this «sexual dimorphism» is that males tend to be larger than females.

Evolutionary analysis further demonstrates that this haematopoietic programme is highly conserved between zebrafish and higher vertebrates.

estrogen The primary female sex hormone in most higher vertebrates, including mammals and birds.

Higher vertebrates like mammals generally have a diminished capacity for tissue regeneration compared with lower vertebrates like fish and salamanders.

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.

Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins the cuttlefish and the squid are evolutionary oxymorons: big - brained invertebrates that display many cognitive, behavioral, and affective traits once considered exclusive to the higher vertebrates.

However, it scarcely makes sense to say that certain bones of a fish skull are incipient ears, or that two pairs of fins in fish have concealed in them the five - fingered appendages of the higher vertebrates.

Showed that the four genes that were significantly down - regulated have evolutionarily conserved miR -124-3p binding sites across a wide range of higher vertebrate species.

Not exact matches

Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Placental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (a-pes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (a-pes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2

Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Pl - acental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos 79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (apes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (apes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2

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.

High - tech analyses of pterosaur skulls show that the first flying vertebrates packed some sophisticated navigational hardware.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ivertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology iVertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

And sorry, but your metabolism will never match that of the ruby - throated hummingbird, which has the highest metabolic rate of any vertebrate when active.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest, or Mata Atlantica, is home to 29 critically endangered vertebrates, and holds the world's highest concentration of tree species per acre.

«Our new knowledge of the function of Abd - B helps us to better understand how these processes are regulated in higher organisms, including vertebrates,» explains Ingrid Lohmann.

In the pied flycatchers it reached as high as 146 Hz, some 50 Hz above the highest rate encountered for any other vertebrate.

Thanks to the high degree of abstraction of AnNa, researchers have been able to conduct several studies of both the human skeleton and of the rest of terrestrial vertebrates, especially as regards the development and evolution of the skull.

These results, the authors conclude, demonstrate that «higher cognitive functions are not a privilege of the vertebrates.»

Anderson's review of the biomechanics literature suggests that the motion has the highest acceleration and power output produced per kilogram of muscle mass by any reptile, bird, or mammal and is the second most powerful among any kind of vertebrate (only a salamander outdoes it).

Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

Many higher order vertebrates have low effective population sizes resulting from reduced efficiency of selection [10], suggesting that neutral or mildly deleterious mutations such as some transposon insertions can easily reach fixation.

Michaela received the award for developing a novel high - resolution technique to image and reconstruct vertebrate hearts and their morphogenesis.

These figures are significantly higher compared to the combined biomass of all vertebrates currently alive.

Among vertebrates, the fish model displays easy high density breeding (short generation time), favourable biological peculiarities (accessibility and transparency of the eggs, genome sequenced for both species used on the platform), original technological approaches (confocal and two - photon microscopy), as well as a wide accessibility to fully transparent larvae usable up to 5 days after fertilization.

Rapid developments in synchrotron tomography foresee the visualisation of even larger objects at higher resolutions in the future and will continue to expand the role of computed tomography in vertebrate palaeontology.

A new hybrid approach for MHC genotyping: high - throughput NGS and long read MinION nanopore sequencing, with application to the non-model vertebrate Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)

But it does exist and has been studied for some time: «The blood - brain barrier (BBB) is formed by epithelial - like high resistance tight junctions within the endothelium of capillaries perfusing the vertebrate brain.»

WNBA superstar Sue Bird publicly announced that she was gay and dating Seattle Reign and USWNT star soccer player Megan Rapinoe in an article Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard - shelled eggs, a high metabolic

The short - term effects of an extensive and high - intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia.