Sentences with phrase «includes vertebrates»

It includes vertebrates as well as invertebrates, from plankton, to clams, to coral reef fishes.

At just 1 centimetre long, it ties with a Brazilian frog as the world's tiniest tetrapod — a group that includes all vertebrates apart from fish.

«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.

According to many biologists, this happened in a worm - like creature known as the urbilaterian, the ancestor of most living animals including vertebrates, molluscs and insects.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Gettysburg College found that this symbiosis, the only known example that includes a vertebrate species, puts stress on algal cells, changing the way they make energy, but does not seem to negatively impact salamander cells.

Most animals, including vertebrates (fishes, frogs, birds, humans), arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceans), and molluscs (snails, mussels, squid), are part of the group Bilateria.

Not exact matches

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.

Whenever you qualify the plain language to include only land vertebrates, divinely - delivered eggs / juveniles, suspended animation, etc, you are indicating that the science simply doesn't matter.

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.

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.

Sex hormones, including testosterone, evolved 500 million years ago — before the first vertebrate animals — from the «mother» of all steroid hormones, estrogen.

Despite previous logging and farming in the planted forests zone, more than 400 vertebrate species, including bears, civets, macaques, leopard cats, mongooses, pangolins, and porcupines, have been spotted there.

I was also disappointed that the declaration did not include fish, because the evidence supporting consciousness in this group of vertebrates is also compelling.

The study published yesterday in Nature Ecology and Evolution analyzed data on more than 11,000 vertebrate species, including fossil records from the past 270 million years.

Although the Burmese python's body shape is distinct from other vertebrates, including humans, its organs operate the same.

This gallery highlights some of their discoveries, and shows what it takes for scientists to operate in one of the least hospitable places on Earth, which, as it turns out, played a key role in the evolution and migration of the planet's vertebrates, including mammals.

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.

Pyenson et al. report that the site, Cerro Ballena, dates to the Late Miocene period and consists of over 40 skeletons of marine vertebrates, including rorqual and sperm whales, seals, predatory fishes, and fascinating, now completely extinct, species such as walrus - whales and aquatic sloths.

One means of accomplishing that would be to include lab chiefs» safety records among the materials submitted in grant proposals (and weighed in funding decisions), alongside currently required materials such as human subjects and vertebrate - care documentation.

The threatened species include at least 9 % of bees and butterflies and about 16 % of vertebrate pollinators such as bats and hummingbirds.

Scientists have now discovered that these viruses have integrated themselves into the DNA of a wide range of animals, including humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates.

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.

A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this disease were probably reptiles, which at that time would have included the dinosaurs.

A planktivorous diet, also called suspension - feeding, is known among some specialized aquatic vertebrates today, including the Blue Whale, Manta Ray and Whale Shark.

This fossil assemblage, newly named the Daohugou Biota after a village near one of the major localities in Inner Mongolia, China, dates from a time when many important vertebrate groups, including our own group, mammals, were undergoing evolutionary diversification.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

Genome sequencing confirms that myxozoans, a diverse group of microscopic parasites that infect invertebrate and vertebrate hosts, are actually are «highly reduced» cnidarians — the phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and sea anemones.

While pathogenic bunyaviruses can multiply at temperatures that include the human body temperature, growth of Jonchet and Ferak viruses ceases above 32 degrees Celsius, making it unlikely that the viruses infect humans or other vertebrates.

Yet trying to understand the genetic explanations of such questions is surprisingly difficult considering most vertebrate genomes, including our own, are made up of literally billions of DNA bases that can determine how an organism looks and functions,» says Castoe.

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

In the new study, he and his colleagues sought to quantify those costs by mapping each corridor along with the estimated human occupancy and the environmental values, including endangered and endemic vertebrates, plant diversity, critical habitats, carbon storage, and climate - regulation services, inside a 50 - kilometer - wide band overlaid onto each corridor.

Using a combination of satellite and ground data, the team can map multiple indicators of monkey distribution, including human activity zones as inferred from roads and settlements, direct detections from mosquito - derived iDNA, animal sound recordings, plus detections of other species that are usually found when monkeys are present, such as other large vertebrates.

«We found that fruit flies exhibit acoustic trauma effects resembling those found in vertebrates, including inducing metabolic stress in sensory cells,» Eberl says.

Jawless vertebrates include the parasitic lamprey and scavenging hagfish: eel - like creatures that diverged from the ancestral line over 400 million years ago.

Most of the remains include only bits of bone and are from individuals of various sizes, says Hans - Dieter Sues, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..

Zebrafish have emerged as an important vertebrate model for cardiovascular research for a number of reasons, including the ability to regenerate its heart if damaged, and because the transparency of the embryos allows easy observation of internal processes like blood vessel development.

They compared 146 genes in many chordates, including hagfish and lamprey (considered the most primitive vertebrates) and larvaceans, which are sea - faring relatives of sea squirts.

Jawed vertebrates — such as fish, birds and mammals — make up 99 % of all living vertebrates, including us.

«By narrowing down how many species exist within the largest group — the insects and other arthropods — we are now in a position to try to improve estimates for all species, including plants, fungi and vertebrates.

«Here you have a vertebrate turtle that shows no increasein mortality and no loss of reproductive capacity at ages wheremammals, including humans, will shut down totally.»

A tiny fossil from China could be the earliest of all deuterostomes, creatures that eventually led to evolution of all vertebrates, including humans

«MHC genes are an important line of defence in the immune system in vertebrates, including humans.

Human beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory factors.

«As we found here, those developmental processes are still used to build the skeletons of many vertebrate groups, including humans.»

In all land vertebrates (including humans), spines form from only one group of cells called somites.

«We hope to find out whether or not a similar ground pattern of organization occurs across the vertebrates, and whether that pattern also includes these highly abundant proteins,» Strausfeld said.

A variety of vertebrates and a handful of invertebrates, including octopuses and spiders — even a bacterium — are members of the personality club, but the researchers say sea anemones set a new bar as the animal with the simplest nervous system.

In the same vein, the article describes how a chance «mistake» — an apparently meaningless mutation that took place over 700 million years ago — became the molecular driver for complex morphological developments in a number of vertebrates (including the human species).

Dr Wenban - Smith explains the Ebbsfleet area would have been very different from today: «Rich fossilised remains surrounding the elephant skeleton, including pollen, snails and a wide variety of vertebrates, provide a remarkable record of the climate and environment the early humans inhabited.

Chromatophores produce the colors of all kinds of vertebrates other than reptiles, including fish and amphibians — so the new technique could open a door into seeing the full colors of a wide variety of ancient creatures.