Sentences with phrase «invertebrates with»

While it will offer open enrollment and online lecture in the vein of traditional MOOCs, what sets it apart (and why it has come to Kickstarter) is its desire to allow students to perform DIY neuroscience experiments on invertebrates with open source hardware.

For benthic invertebrates with a pelagic life stage, it is important to understand the conditions that adults experience in the benthos, and those that the larvae experience in the plankton, to place stress tolerance levels in context with projected future change.

The kelp holdfasts, stipes (stalks) and blades create a three dimensional world of incredible biological diversity by providing numerous fish and invertebrates with food and protection.

I think it is a great idea to give a gift certificate for invertebrates with every nano - tank sale you make.

While these prey items are typically fed live, they are invertebrates with simple neural systems and have next to nothing in way of pain receptors.

Three years ago, while sampling soil invertebrates with staff from the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, high school students from a nearby Cherokee reservation spotted a tiny purple bug with white antenna that had been eluding scientists for years.

Some other invertebrates with shells, such as the lamp shells (brachiopods) do receive a mention, but only briefly.

He wrote on politics and invertebrates with equal passion.

And so questions loom: How could asocial invertebrates with short life spans develop signs of intelligence?

Not to be outdone, the Nature Museum will once again be celebrating all things invertebrate with its fifth annual Bugapalooza event.

Not exact matches

Conservationist Norman Myers, author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.

The Lodi Rules ™ Program certifies sustainable management of the ecosystem, soils, water, business practices, human resources, and pest control with an emphasis on reducing pesticide risk to farm workers, consumers, small aquatic invertebrates, birds, and bees.

The result will be building blocks for industry with the development of new technologies including biomaterials (proteins) from insects and other invertebrates, along with sensory and diagnostic platforms with industrial and environmental applications.

Floral diversity has been shown to contribute to ecosystem stability, while the invertebrate community associated with field boundaries performs many ecosystem functions including biological control of pests and diseases, pollination and food resource for higher trophic levels.

Spider Webs, Not Snow Mold, Covered Chicago's Lawns Thursday — Here's Why - DNAinfo.com Chicago - June 24, 2016 The webs are already there but difficult to see with the naked eye unless there's moisture on the ground, according to Allen Lawrance, the Invertebrate Specialist at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

With this package you can see 32,000 aquatic animals — 1,500 species of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds and mammals from waters around the world — during your stay at the Hilton Chicago.

It will retain a vague reverence for the Christian moral code, and from time to time will refer to England as «a Christian Country» It drips with contempt for these symbols whereas as you notice at other times he is equally contemptuous of left wing intellectuals whose invertebrate inhumanity he clearly described in 1984 as sustained polemic nauseated with «Eng Soc».

It comes four years after Johnson lashed out at opposition groups at the London Assembly, with the then London mayor calling members «great, supine, protoplasmic invertebrate jellies».

With nothing but some scuba equipment and an intrepid spirit, the two cofounded Paleo Quest and SharkFinder, which enlist students to hunt for fossils of ancient sharks, rays, and invertebrates.

Symbiodinium is a unicellular alga that plays a major role in coral reefs by forming symbiotic partnerships with invertebrates, providing them with the ability to photosynthesize.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

Scientists call this «traumatic insemination,» and though practiced with apparent evolutionary success by several species of invertebrates, it's not at all a positive experience for the female: the wound made by the male's wedge is liable to get infected.

For a year, in addition to testing air samples for radioactive isotopes, Bartke collected soil organisms, insects and other invertebrates, and a few snakes and lizards, making do with the little equipment and few supplies that he had.

Aside from being some of the most ancient animals on Earth, these marine invertebrates maintain their shape and stiffness with a matrix of glass.

While some invertebrates had transitioned from marine to terrestrial environments millions of years earlier, even more came ashore during this period, along with the tetrapods.

What's surprising is that, as with marine life, so little research is being done on the impact to invertebrates that night - lights might have.

Gould was a man of many parts — invertebrate palaeontologist, evolutionary theorist, historian of science, crusader against creationism and a prolific populariser of science with a slew of bestselling books.

Those judgments tend to arise from arguments about invertebrates» failure to demonstrate the behaviors we usually associate with a pain response.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

Mr Semple, with help from collaborators in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US, has published his findings in the international journal Invertebrate Systematics.

Near Glen Canyon Dam, the researchers found food webs dominated by invasive New Zealand mud snails and non-native rainbow trout, with large mismatches in the food web and only a small percentage of available invertebrates eaten by fish.

While it is not uncommon for studies dealing with the invertebrate fauna to end up describing new species, this minute mollusc (nearly 2 mm in length) attracted extra attention.

Other experiments have shown that lichens, along with microscopic invertebrates called tardigrades, can also survive long stretches in the vacuum.

A new study credits an invertebrate for the first time with such a sophisticated skill: Honeybees can conceptualize «sameness» and «difference.»

«Our limited understanding of the incredible jaws of these arachnids, together with terminology that is unstandardized and even contradictory, has hindered our ability to classify them and figure out where they fit in the arachnid tree of life because, much like the cranial anatomy of vertebrates, the jaws of solifuges contain most of the relevant information,» said Lorenzo Prendini, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an author on the paper.

And those invertebrates could, theoretically, be able to feast on the new prey, finding themselves with an unexpected surplus of food.

But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

«Given the similarities in the molecules and the mechanisms involved in limb development in vertebrates and invertebrates, the fly is a very useful genetic model in which to identify new genes that potentially participate in limb development in vertebrates and their possible association with congenital diseases,» says Ana Ferreira, who has participated in the study.

With modern advances in DNA sequencing technology, detecting the presence of forest mammals based on DNA detection in the guts of invertebrates has become a potential approach to study the diversity of forest mammals.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

Pesticides pose by far the greatest risk to fish and invertebrates, with weedkillers having the biggest impact on algae.

Trilobites are a fossil group of extinct marine invertebrate animals with external skeletons (see photo).

The ragworm has the eyes of an invertebrate and a brain with the photoreceptor cells of a human.

In a companion study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the team, in collaboration with mathematics and bioinformatics specialists at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, addressed invertebrate extinction globally.

The genome shares about 60 % of its genes with the other invertebrates completely sequenced, such as the nematode and fruit fly, whereas about 5 % match sequences found only — up to now, at least — in the human, mouse, and puffer fish genomes.

«Our results with Drosophila exhibit surprising similarities in some respects to what we know about the regulation of resting phases in mammals, allowing for speculation as to whether the Hippo signaling pathway in neural stem cells functions in the same manner in both vertebrates and invertebrates,» stated the paper's first author Rouven Ding.

Berkeley evolutionary biologist Erica Bree Rosenblum is studying this phenomenon in multiple species, including lizards, invertebrates and mammals, comparing them with their brown relatives in the adjacent desert and tracking changes in everything from genes to mating patterns.