Sentences with phrase «in taxonomic»

Evidence suggests that oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) are closely related in taxonomic and developmental terms [1].

As in all initial proposals, it is anticipated that future research will lead to greater refinement in the taxonomic criteria.

Tests for differences in taxonomic distribution were done using a 2 × k contingency table (χ2 - test).

Figure 4 illustrates the differences in taxonomic composition of the Huecoid and Saladoid fecal microbiota.

Therefore, the three key objectives of PESI include standardisation in taxonomic reference systems, enhancement of the quality and completeness of taxonomic data sets and creation of integrated access to taxonomic information.

A bird in the taxonomic hand may actually be two in the bush, according to the results of a genetic survey of all North American avians

Why did Tansley, steeped as he was in the taxonomic botany of the day, not use the phytosociological method developed by his friend Rienhold Tuxen as a basis for the descriptive side of his work?

The fungal sample was interesting partly as it represented a major component of the observed fungal population in a pine forest and it responded positively to elevated CO2 and nitrogen amendment treatments that mimic future environmental conditions — yet the sample's exact placement in the taxonomic order was unknown.

Octopuses hail from a humble neighborhood in the taxonomic tree: the mollusks, which include snails, clams and other dimwitted animals.

In the taxonomic sense, «bacteria» are a domain which is then subdivided into various kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genuses, and then, finally, species.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, as Gould noted, while we don't generally expect to see smooth transitions between species in the fossil record, these transitions are well represented at higher taxonomic levels.

As he sarcastically noted, if theology only amounts to being a taxonomic catalogue of numinous sentiments, it would be unreasonable to demand a theological chair in a university, just as it would to demand a chair «for fine feeling, sense of honor, patriotism, gratitude, maternal affection, or good companionship, proposals which would be simply unmeaning.»

Increased taxonomic richness and cover of instream aquatic vegetation, particularly in Wakool River zones 3 and 4, but not consistently in Yallakool Creek zone 1.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in MunicIn fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Municin the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Municin Munich.

«As expected, we found that the vulnerability of migratory animals varied depending on the regional, environmental, behavioral and taxonomic context of the species,» explained lead author Molly Hardesty - Moore, a graduate student in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

Its taxonomic reassignment therefore provides new insights into the evolution of the bird - like dinosaurs in the Middle to Late Jurassic.

«I don't necessarily care what the taxonomic rank would be of the units I'm studying,» says Hey, whose current research involves cichlid fish in Lake Malawi.

Extinction risks were highest in South America, Australia, and New Zealand, and risks did not vary by taxonomic group.

It specializes in invasive mussels and also identifies species through taxonomic and genetic testing.

In 2000, after more detailed study, the Quitobaquito pupfish was named a species in its own right and put on a separate taxonomic rung from the desert pupfisIn 2000, after more detailed study, the Quitobaquito pupfish was named a species in its own right and put on a separate taxonomic rung from the desert pupfisin its own right and put on a separate taxonomic rung from the desert pupfish.

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

Scientists at the RBGE turn those data into taxonomic monographs (descriptions of all the plants in a particular genus) and floras (descriptions of all the plants found in a given geographic area).

This list of characteristic features is set to prevent similar taxonomic confusion in the future.

When Schultes was in the Amazon in the 1940s, the Seona in Ecuador identified for him 17 varieties of ayahuasca liana, and all of them, to his Harvard - trained taxonomic eye, were the same species.

The supragingival biofilm likely harbors taxonomic and functional information that can be leveraged to inform «precision dentistry» in early childhood.

Students, assisted by MU Curators» Professor James Carrel and Research Entomologist Mark Deyrup with the Archbold Biological Station in Florida, identified each prey item to the lowest taxonomic level and calculated its mass.

Two groups of lactating women participated in highly - controlled single - blinded cross-over dietary intervention studies to evaluate if maternal diet plays a significant role in structuring the taxonomic and metagenomic composition of the breast milk microbiome.

Our long - term goal is to characterize oral health and disease at the molecular level; in other words, define taxonomic or functional signatures in the supragingival biofilm that represent the ECC - associated oral dysbiosis prior to clinical disease development,» he added.

Among the issues to be resolved there would be, for example, how to identify the environmental factors that control the production of aggressive morphs; what costs and benefits interaction involves for each participant; the taxonomic status of the deceit and the variability level in the chemical signal used for misleading ants; or what happens with related aphid species which also relate with ants.

The pros: Just by looking at the exoplanet's taxonomic species name, someone in the know would glean loads of information.

«A long list of silly examples of complications caused by poor taxonomic governance» pushed conservation biologist Stephen Garnett of Charles Darwin University in Darwin to cowrite the piece.

To address this issue, Dr. R. Alexander Pyron, The George Washington University, and his international research team have included a taxonomic review and discussion on the relationships and origin within a non-venomous snake tribe in a paper, published in the open - access journal ZooKeys.

After analyzing historical data on benthic community composition in Lake Erie over the last 50 years, the authors conclude that the lake's benthic community has changed significantly, even after taking into account the challenges presented by differences in sampling design, gear and preservation techniques, and taxonomic resolution over the years.

It found that local extinctions occurred in about half of the species surveyed across different habitats and taxonomic groups.

Adds Dr. Patrick Jodice of Clemson University, an expert in reproductive energetics who was not involved in the study, «When we examine life history traits we tend to see commonalities within taxonomic families, but Rizzolo et al. demonstrated that within the Gaviidae, Red - throated Loons appear to be quite unique.

Much in the way seeing the top of a pyramid lets you predict the width of the bottom, Mora extrapolated the total number of species from the higher, more complete taxonomic groups to arrive at his estimate.

The butterfly's atypical wings in comparison to its relatives, have been the reason the scientists took to plenty of diagnostic characters to define its taxonomic placement.

Examples of fringe collaboration include the amateur naturalist who brings in a species new to science but is not concerned with subsequent taxonomic research on it, the technician who makes a vital series of analyses at a distant laboratory, or the group of undergraduates who provide a preliminary database from student projects that later forms the justification for a full - blown project.

With access to museum ornithological collections from areas of South America that Darwin had not visited, Gould corrected a number of taxonomic errors Darwin had made (such as labeling two finch species a «Wren» and an «Icterus») and pointed out to him that although the land birds in the Galpagos were endemic to the islands, they were notably South American in character.

To counteract this trend, MacPhee and his colleagues formed the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms in the late 1990s, devising criteria to determine extinction reliably — including rigorous taxonomic identification and a 50 - year waiting period before declaring something extinct, an idea first put forth by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

The new definition is the equivalent of pointing to the tips of two twigs on the tree of life, tracing the branches back to where they meet, and describing the taxonomic group as everything in between.

Thus every taxonomic grouping would get a new definition and in some cases even a new name.

For Francisco and Lohmann it took three field expeditions to different states of the Brazilian Amazon, combined with deep morphological and molecular studies, to set straight uncertainties in the complex taxonomic history of Pachyptera lianas.

If the collector was especially enthusiastic or if the species has been renamed in the course of a taxonomic revision, a pin may hold up to 10 different labels.

It will also estimate the abundance, in tons, of the large taxonomic groups like the crustaceans.

«Upon hearing the bird vocalize, Mark was stunned that its call sounded nothing like Neotropical Dryocopus, and immediately knew we needed to examine its taxonomic status in the context of our recent Celeus study given that the Helmeted Woodpecker calls were most similar to several other Celeus species.

Early in his career, Leonard untangled the taxonomic mess of similar - looking, but only distantly related, fungi with multicellular dark spores that were causing disease in grains such as corn.

This reveals a greater ecological diversity in an early mammaliaform clade at a more fundamental taxonomic level not only between major clades as previously thought.

The study shows a significant trend in some of the most researched taxonomic groups, according to Watson.

In fact, by standard taxonomic methods, it would appear that Colorado had a greater abundance of mayfly species.