Sentences with phrase «identified by biologists»

Among the new organisms newly identified by biologists over the last decade was the first new anaconda identified in over 70 years, a previously unknown species of pink dolphin, and a colorful new bald parrot.

Not exact matches

With this new, aggregate climate map in hand, they turned to a technique used primarily by ecologists and biologists, called species distribution modeling, to identify fire - prone regions of the globe.

It might not seem like a revolutionary concept, but marine biologists have just made a claim that could shake up the way dolphins are identified in scientific studies: We humans can reliably identify these marine mammals the same way we identify each another, by simply looking at their faces.

Scientists led by cancer biologist Wen - Hwa Lee of the University of California, Irvine, set out to identify genes regulated by BRCA1.

By comparing their genes, biologists hope to identify and map defective sequences.

Buried deep inside a cell's nucleus, a genetic switch hunted by biologists for decades has finally been identified.

But it can always be identified by scent: It smells like burnt gunpowder, according to marine biologists.

Now that the biologists had identified one site — out of many — housing neurons that activated selectively for social encounters, they listened in on the goings - on by placing very fine electrodes in proximity.

A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.

This canonical view of predator - prey relationships was first identified by mathematical biologists Alfred Lotka and Vito Volterra in the 1920s and 1930s.

Then Mays, along with molecular biologist G. Michael Taylor of Imperial College in London, confirmed that the scars were signs of TB by identifying traces of gene sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the 2300 - year - old remains.

For example, last September Possingham, Kerrie Wilson (a biologist at the University of Queensland), and a team of researchers assessed the cost and outcomes of various conservation actions in 39 «Mediterranean» ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

The cell biologist helped explain how blood clots form by identifying factor XIII, the enzyme that binds proteins together to create a plug in a wound, preventing a person from bleeding to death.

More than 20 years ago, in a study that triggered both scientific and cultural controversy, the molecular biologist offered the first direct evidence of a «gay gene,» by identifying a stretch on the X chromosome likely associated with homosexuality.

Help in identifying the mutant gene came from a team from the University of California, Davis, headed by plant biologist Deborah Delmer.

Albert Edge, a stem cell biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, attempted to identify the exact type of supporting cells that transform into sensory ones and fill in the gaps left by the damaged cells.

The second group, headed by John Mattick, a molecular biologist at University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Australia, identified a new class of short RNAs that also seem to be involved in regulating gene expression, though their function needs to be confirmed.

AHR2 is also the same gene identified in a 2011 Science paper by WHOI biologists and colleagues from New York University and NOAA on PCB - resistant tomcod from the Hudson River.

For many years, researchers have tried to identify manuscripts closest to the missing original by comparing the changes and errors that were copied from one manuscript to another — just as evolutionary biologists construct biological family trees by comparing inherited changes in DNA.

By identifying where waterfowl are in the valley, waterfowl biologists from USGS are able to take samples from the birds to look for prevalence of avian influenza, helping to build pathogen risk models for the poultry industry in the region.

In my project, I aim to comprehensively identify the mutational paths by which avian [bird] influenza can adapt to the human host and determine the mechanisms of adaptation,» said Soh, who is jointly mentored by basic scientist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Harmit Malik.

Morgridge computational biologist John Steill, another co-author of the KinderMining study, is using the KinderMiner tool to improve gene marker lists, which have numerous uses such as classifying cells or samples by cell type and identifying samples that may produce tumors.

The whale was identified as «Inukshuk» by both our onboard marine biologist Alison on the Kuluta and Jackie Hildering, Stubbs Island Educator and Humpback Whale Researcher, who was on the Lukwa.

In her series «Hope Spots,» Mattison's sculptures represent areas in the sea critical to our underwater ecosystems as identified by marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle, a longtime hero of hers.

And because it's so short, I'm including the complete May 2 Veterinary Record item written by the biologists who identified the fungus last month:

The researchers traced arguments on roughly four - fifths of the climate - doubting blogs they studied back to one blog, «Polar Bear Science,» written by Susan Crockford, a biologist and co-founder of the company Pacific IDentifications, Inc., which specializes in identifying animal bones.