Sentences with phrase «in vertebrates in»

«Among other proteins, we managed to find collagen, one of the most important proteins in the bodies of animals in general, and in vertebrates in particular.»

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Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in many plants, some invertebrate animal species (including nematodes, water fleas, some scorpions, aphids, some bees, some Phasmida and parasitic wasps) and a few vertebrates (such as some fish, amphibians, reptiles and very rarely birds.

What do they know about the earliest vertebrate environment and some aspects of dermal skeletal tissue or the Opaque 2 function in maize?

Now, we also evolved from vertebrates, in that we have spines.

Chimps will never become human, just like humans will never become chimps, because we have now branched off in the same way that vertebrates have branched off from non-vertabrates.

@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.

No, he killed every land vertebrate which was not on the ark: Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

If you are conceding that most marine organisms died, then you face the same founding population genetic diversity constraints limiting their ability to rapidly yield the mult - itude of observable marine vertebrate and invertebrate life in a very short time.

2) It appears that god only asked to take the land vertebrates on the ark, the inverts died or survived by themselves by clinging to floating stuff, flying, using air pockets in earth or something like this.

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.

If God is taken to be like that, it then follows that human love itself is interpreted as being «Pollyanna - ish» sentimentality, prepared to accept whatever happens, tolerant of anything, however vicious, and utterly lacking in vertebrate strength.

In a little lesser degree the behavior of lower vertebrates allows the conclusion that these animals have sensations, feelings and memory.

We are swimming, along with every other vertebrate, in the sea of the Animal Kingdom.

The same evidence was found in another family of proteins, the cytochromes c, and this made it possible to conclude that the common ancestor of yeast, plants, and vertebrates lived about 1.2 billion years ago.

There is no such «direct» evolution: animals, bacteria, and algae have a common ancestor from which they have diverged, as can be shown by aligning and comparing amino acid sequences of proteins and nucleotide sequences of homologous ribosomal RNA molecules that are found in both bacteria and vertebrates.

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.

Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

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

A wide variety of vertebrates also are known to have «reward circuits» in their brains.

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

This would suggest that a wide range of vertebrates may experience some sort of suffering akin to anxiety in humans.

Would it be something that shows intermediate structures not present in the current major vertebrate classes.

We can follow it in insects as in vertebrates; and among the vertebrates we can follow it from class to class, from order to order, and from family to family.

There is no need to recall Haeckel's blasphemy about a gaseous vertebrate: suffice it to remind ourselves of the classical tradition of religious philosophy with its insistence that God can not be defined except in negatives — apoios, without quality, the ontos on, the thelon, (See Philo.

The sequence of experience in a waking vertebrate animal is the paradigm case.

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.»

Life on this planet has, in the context of its limitations, managed a threefold success: plant and animal life, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humankind.

Humans and all vertebrates require cobalt, although it is assimilated only in the form of vitamin B12.»

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.

Geographically, large numbers of vertebrate pollinators are at risk in Australia, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the United States.

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.

The discovery that each cell in a chicken can be inherently male or female is a huge departure from biological dogma, which holds that hormones control sex characteristics in vertebrates.

But a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology supports the idea that there was an isolated desert in the middle of Pangea with a fauna all its own.

Saniwa ensidens is the only known jawed vertebrate to have had two eyelike photosensory structures at the top of the head, in addition to the organs we commonly think of as eyes, researchers report April 2 in Current Biology.

«Reproduction in modern birds is distinct among living vertebrates.

Scientists had long suspected that birds and mammals are the only vertebrates to experience rapid eye movement (REM), a sleep state in which the body is mostly immobile but the brain is in overdrive.

In most vertebrates and some mollusks, the eye works by allowing light to enter it and project onto a light - sensitive panel of cells known as the retina at the rear of the eye, where the light is detected and converted into electrical signals.

«The broad picture,» Yau says, «is that the local pupillary light reflex appeared early in primitive vertebrates such as jawless fish, even before the brain got involved.

Found in the sensory nerve cells of vertebrates, TRPM8 typically sends a sensation of cold to the brain when activated by low temperatures.

The team compiled a list of more than 1000 species of vertebrates that lived in the 96 - million - year interval straddling the mass extinction.

The researchers say they are now «eager to see how additional finds from this region will reshape our understanding of plumage and soft tissues in dinosaurs and other vertebrates.»

But is it fair to equate historical constraints with defects in describing how vertebrate photoreceptors are on the back of the «inside - out» retina, shadowed by blood vessels and overlying cells?

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.

On closer inspection, however, the gene we had discovered in vertebrates proved not to be a retrovirus gene at all.

«These results change our understanding of when the largest living group of vertebrates evolved and allow us to iron out a lot of the wrinkles in our understanding of the sequence of evolutionary events.»

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.

It appears the vertebrate src gene has survived long periods of evolution without major change, implying that it is important to the well - being of the species in which it persists.

(The cloaca is a combination of genital tract and end of the digestive system found in many invertebrates and most vertebrates, except most mammals.)

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.»