Sentences with phrase «increased body size»

I've found it ironical, that most of the advances in Otto and Diesel motor technology over the past couple of decades or so have been largely subdued by the increased body size, weight and for example catalysators.

In other cases, animals living in higher and colder climates, like marmots, have increased their body size in response to a longer growing season.

Large breeds, for example Wolfhound, are predisposed to disorders resulting from increased body size or faster rate of growth.

SUVs and vans tend to have larger blind spots than sedans because of the increased body size.

Based on a number of studies, we postulate that to transmit nutritional information from the fat body to the insulin - producing cells, the fat - body — derived signal would need to have the following properties: (1) it should be produced in the fat body and secreted into the hemolymph, (2) its expression and / or secretion should be amino acid - and TOR - sensitive, (3) it should act downstream of TOR signaling to stimulate ILP secretion from the insulin - producing cells, and (4) its secretion should increase IIS activity in the entire body, resulting in increased body size.

Overexpressing both GBP1 and GBP2 in the fat body in the mutant background increased body size with respect to the null mutant controls (Fig 6A and 6B).

«In particular, we found a group called Laurasiatheria quickly increased their body size and ecological diversity, setting them on a path that would result in a modern group containing mammals as diverse as bats, cats, rhinos, whales, cows, pangolins, shrews and hedgehogs.»

Recently discovered remains suggest these species swam against the tide of increasing body size through time.

«There was a stepwise elevation in risk with increasing body size.

(A-D) Overexpressing GBP1 or GBP2 increases body size in wild - type females and males (A and B, respectively) at 25 °C or 22 °C (C and D, respectively).

But if you don't drastically increase your calories to build that new mass, then you will not increase your body size.

In the 1860 ′ s, the Rough Collie caught the eye of people interested in the beauty of the dog and bred it to increase body size and the thickness of its coat.

Not exact matches

Anabolic steroids work by helping the body's muscle cells produce more protein which, as long as the athletes works out, leads to increased muscle size and strength and, at the same time, also allows the body to produce more ATP, the «fuel» muscles need to move.

Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor processes so that the brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.

Each month after ovulation, you may notice an increase in the size and tenderness of your breasts as your body and your breasts start to prepare for a pregnancy and breastfeeding.

will increase in size and the baby's brain also starts maturingn As fat begins to accumulate in the baby's body its skin will develop a pinkish color which is revealed during the pregnancy week 33 ultrasoundn Pregnant women tend to gain more weight during their third trimester as the baby is growing at a very fast rate and gains around five to nice ounces every weeke

As your body prepares to produce milk for you impending arrival, the size of your breasts increases.

Prematurity - related problems that might impact breastfeeding include an underdeveloped suck reflex; increased sleepiness; low birth weight / small size; a higher risk of jaundice, hypoglycemia, and difficulty maintaining body temperature; and anything else that requires separation of babies from their mother or supplementation.

Throughout the course of pregnancy, you will likely continue to maintain a high body temperature as your body increases in size and you retain fluid.

Various hormonal changes in the body which increase the blood supply in the breasts thus making it larger in size.

They may show up anywhere on your baby's body, either at birth or within the first few years of life, and increase in size, quantity or darkness as your child gets older.

Published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the research also shows that, rather than steadily increasing in size, hominin bodies evolved in «pulse and stasis» fluctuations, with some lineages even shrinking.

Damselflies in the hotter setting displayed bigger differences in body size, higher activity levels and increased cannibalism rates.

Based on his group's observations, Moss argues that the increase in body size of marine bivalves throughout the Phanerozoic, the current geologic eon stretching back more than 540 million years, should be accompanied by a shift to faster growth and a shorter lifespan.

«It's probably too early to conclude exactly which geochemical changes in the Ediacaran oceans were responsible for the shift to large body sizes, but there are strong contenders, especially increased oxygen, which animals need for respiration.»

But with a geologically sudden increase in oxygen or other nutrients, much larger body sizes become possible, even in organisms with the same genetic makeup.

Numerous other creatures, especially some whales and birds, also show a pattern of increasing brain size relative to their bodies over the past tens of millions of years.

They discovered that when the ants» body sizes changed, different regions within their eyes increased / decreased in size at different rates.

Compared with controls, fish with only one copy of each gene exhibit hyperactivity, increased propensity for seizures, increased body and head size, and fat content.

Now, a study suggests that by increasing the size of a warm body of water in the Pacific, El Niño might even slow down Earth's rotation, resulting in slightly longer days.

In contrast, those who studied images of plus - sized models showed the opposite effect — their ideal body shape increased in size.

«Over the past 300 years,» Fogel says, «humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems.»

This is the opposite result we would expect, but provides increasing support for previous studies that show body size plays no role in extinction selectivity.»

To do all this, a tick needs legs that can grip a large variety of surfaces, anchor the tick when a host is trying to scratch it out, and support the huge increase in body weight as it feeds — a female tick can swell to 135 times her initial size after a blood meal.

«As animals increase in size, the amount of body surface area per volume decreases — an ant has a lot of surface area and very little volume, and a blue whale is mostly volume with not much surface area» explains Labonte.

They clearly took advantage of that opportunity, as we can see by their rapid increases in body size and ecological diversity.

Shorelines crumbled Without fresh sediment and dead plants, shorelines began to collapse, increasing the size of existing water bodies.

They found that a change in body mass index from overweight to obese (equivalent to an average size adult woman increasing in weight from 150 to 180 pounds) was associated with an increase of about 40 % in the risk of MS.

As he points out, comparable warming periods occurred many times over the previous 2 million years, yet body and brain size regularly increased.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

«In other words, the factors that set our lineage apart from our earlier ancestors were unrelated to an increase in body size, which has been the linchpin of numerous adaptive hypotheses on the origins of our genus.»

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«This new locomotor behavior could have been part of an arms race with monkeys for fruit resources, with a later increase in body size being another step in this race,» Grabowski explains.

As hominid body size increased, it took on near - modern proportions of around 5 or 6 feet tall, and the legs grew longer relative to the arms, indicating more efficient walking and perhaps running.

They also enable us to document body - size changes in species over time as a result of climate change, and to track the increase and spread of some species and the decline and disappearance of others (and no, their decline was not precipitated by collecting them for museums).

We performed artificial selection on the allometry between forewing area and body size in a butterfly to test for developmental constraints, and then used the resultant increased range of phenotypic variation to quantify natural selection on the scaling relationship.

«Our research has previously shown that a large body size at age 20, and weight gain from age 20 to midlife, both independently increase the risk of atrial fibrillation in men,» said author Professor Annika Rosengren, professor of internal medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

The accumulation of adipose tissue macrophages in direct proportion to adipocyte size and body mass may explain the coordinated increase in expression of genes encoding macrophage markers observed in our microarray expression data.

Recently, it has been found that in leaf - cutting ants the total force of adhesion increases with body size due to an increase in pad efficiency.

The increase in body size was due to increased growth rate (Fig 6C).