Sentences with phrase «lamprey as»

In a paper published in 1987, he and his colleagues went on to unravel the details of a core network of interacting interneurons in the lamprey as a vertebrate model system.

Sten Grillner has elucidated basic principles of neural circuit organization and function that control vertebrate locomotion using lamprey as a model organism.

There is an easier way to deal with the Great Lakes infestation, however: If we could just convince Midwesterners to view lampreys as a delicacy, as they do in many parts of Europe, the problem might be solved.

October 26, 2006 Scientists find lamprey a «living fossil» Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well - preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today's lampreys as «living fossils» since they have remained largely unaltered for 360 million years.

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biochemical evidence such as Cytochrome - cyto - C is just one of the thousands of sequences and is not proof of common ancestry, as there are more variations than similarities in the genetic code, on the other hand a study of the amino acid make - up reveals that man is closer to lamprey than are fish.

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Now, a detailed analysis of more than 1200 fossils that provide views of the creature's remains from many angles confirm its relation to the eellike creatures known as lampreys, the researchers report online today in Nature.

They also claimed it contained other internal organ structures, such as gill sacs, that identified it as a vertebrate, and that the animal's teeth resembled those of lamprey.

But at a certain threshold — like a tickle turning to a sneeze — the electrical activity suddenly spiked, and simultaneously the lamprey's tail began to swish back and forth, as if the creature were swimming, continuing for about 20 seconds.

But physiologists have latched onto the lamprey's primitive nervous system as a way to understand how the brain directs movement.

The tags emit tiny beeps that are recorded by underwater receivers and are designed to track many different species of fish including long - living fish such as sturgeon and migratory species of concern such as eel and lamprey.

All the muscles of our faces develop from a strip of cells at the base of the embryonic head, just as they do in lampreys, which belong to one of the oldest lineages of vertebrates alive today.

And Pung - Pung Hwang, a zoologist at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, says the team also needs to look at more - ancient fish, such as lamprey and sturgeon, as well as fish living in saltwater.

Docker hopes for more work on lamprey detox tricks, such as the liver enzyme superoxide dismutase, which increases as concentrations of iron in the liver rise in adult pouched lampreys.

Grillner's experimental and theoretical analysis of motor coordination in the lamprey has served as a standard for other attempts to describe the circuits that encode vertebrate behaviours in precise cellular and anatomical terms.

Because lampreys do not have bone or any substantial cartilage, they are extremely rare as fossils.

Grillner's experimental and theoretical analysis of motor coordination in the lamprey has served as a standard for other attempts to describe the circuits that encode vertebrate behaviors in precise cellular and anatomical terms.

Salmon poisoning occurs when a dog eats certain types of raw fish such as uncooked salmon, trout, large - scale sucker, lamprey, sculpin, redside shiner, shad, sturgeon and candlefish.

Salmon, trout, and other fish such as the lamprey, sculpin, redside shiner, shad, sturgeon, candlefish and the large - scale sucker who spend their lives in coastal streams and rivers in the Pacific Northwest can be infected with the organism Neorickettsia helmonthoeca.

Recent surveys have found bass, flounder, salmon and Dover sole, as well as the lamprey eel in the river's still murky waters.