Sentences with phrase «large animal grouping»

The study found that 8,600 families of genes are shared across deuterostomes, a large animal grouping that includes a variety of organisms, ranging from acorn worms to star fishes, from frogs to dogs, to humans.

The large animal group at Salmon Brook Veterinary Hospital provides 24 hour emergency coverage, 365 days a year for our patients.

Not exact matches

Last year, Airlines for America, a trade group representing United and other large U.S. airlines, included the reporting requirements of animal deaths or injuries among those federal rules it would like to see repealed or changed.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

Dinosaurs are a large group of animals in the clade dinosauria.

The bottom layer is the soil, an insect layer on the plants, a bird and rodent layer on the insects, and so on up through various animal groups to the apex layer, which consists of the larger carnivores.

This binds them together in larger organisms such as animals, and since these are internally related to one another as well, larger groupings too have an organic character.

HSUS is the largest animal protection group in the country with some 10 million members.

The appeal and potential for vegan products is expanding beyond a reasonably small but growing group of people who avoid animal products for ethical reasons to include the much larger base of consumers seeking healthier, cleaner foods.

The mistreatment of cows in what has been called the largest case of animal neglect in the South Island dairy sector is appalling, says sector group DairyNZ.

Despite support from Ms. Mark - Viverito, there seemed to be little political will from the City Council at large, where many members benefit from the endorsements of unions and where some grew deeply frustrated with calls and ads from animal groups, to pass a ban.

Hingtgen's group is already testing how far their tumor - homing cells can migrate using larger animal models.

Alamosaurus was a titanosaur sauropod, one of the groups of long - necked and long - tailed dinosaurs that included the largest animals to walk the Earth.

The study took advantage of an important large animal model of SMA, the SMA piglet developed by the research group.

«The earlier research with animals showed that many of the firing patterns that seem so confusing when we look at individual neurons become clear when we look at large groups of neurons together as a dynamical system,» Pandarinath said.

Thanks to this miniature telemetry technology, the animals could move freely in groups in large aviaries so that the scientists were able to continuously register the animals» entire behavioural repertoire.

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

At the end of the last ice age, both horse groups became extinct in North America, along with other large animals like woolly mammoths and saber - toothed cats.

The study not only demonstrates that the influence of kin selection may stretch beyond that of nuclear and extended family groups thus promoting co-operation in large social groups, but it is also the first study to show that kin selection may promote the communal construction and maintenance of an animal - built physical structure.

When vaccinated with a DNA vaccine based on SP - 15, all animals eliminated the parasites, while a control group remained infected and developed large skin ulcers.

For the study, the researchers used an unusually large dataset made up of the sequences of 128 proteins from 55 species, including representatives of all the major animal groups, focusing in particular on those that diverged very early.

If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

Khademhosseini's group is now moving into tests with large animals.

Apicomplexa form one of the largest and most diverse groups of obligate intracellular parasites, capable of infecting almost every kind of animal.

While this male mandrill may look unfriendly, mandrills are social animals that live in large groups in Africa's rainforests.

Scientists have long thought the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was the largest of the bony fishes, a group of animals with skeletons made of bone instead of cartilage.

«This shutters the largest, most aggressive, and most unpleasant animal extremist organization in the world,» says Festing, who notes that U.K. police have estimated the group contained about 40 to 60 active members.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

But with such a large group of eggs, he says, researchers can make quantitative measurements to better understand the range of egg sizes and shapes to get a sense of variation in animal size.

«It seems to be a very virulent and successful strain» in all susceptible species, says Paul Kitching of the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) in Pirbright, U.K., who heads the world's largest FMD research group.

Crustaceans belong to a larger group of animals, called the arthropods, which also includes insects, spiders and others.

The electrodes allowed them to record the activity of large groups of individual neurons as the animals moved their hands and reached for food.

«That they looked across a large number of groups over a long time makes this a powerful [study],» says Jeffrey French, an animal behaviorist at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

The vertebra (backbone) originates from a group of dinosaurs that includes the largest land animals to have ever walked on Earth.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

A control group of six animals, which were inoculated with SIV but not treated with PMEA, were all found to have large amounts of virus in their bodies.

In an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men touches different parts of a large animal to find what it is.

«Japan's ivory controls are flawed and there is evidence that large amounts of illegal ivory... have been laundered into the domestic market,» said the report, which was co-authored by animal welfare group Humane Society International.

Animals that live in large social colonies may benefit from many aspects of group living, but also have to contend with many of the downsides of living and foraging, with countless neighbors.

Lamprologus is a cichlid, one of the most diverse animal groups in existence, despite being mostly confined to three large lakes in Africa.

Rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field 550 million years ago destroyed a large part of the ozone layer and let in a flood of ultraviolet radiation, devastating the unusual creatures of the so - called Ediacaran Period and triggering an evolutionary flight from light that led to the Cambrian explosion of animal groups.

Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.

The animals are known to move up and down a water column, often settling at the bottom during the day, but they haven't been observed in such a large group.

The accusations against Green Hill, a subsidiary of U.S. - based Marshall BioResources and one of Europe's largest suppliers of dogs for research, were presented to prosecutors in June 2012 in a complaint filed by Legambiente, an environmental organization, and the animal rights group Lega Anti Vivisezione (LAV).

Unlike early human hunter - gatherer groups, Neanderthals concentrated almost entirely on hunting big game, as evidenced by the abundance of large animal bones in Neanderthal archaeological sites.

Conventional thinking has been that sophisticated tool - making came in response to a change in climate that led to the spread of broad savannah grasslands, and the consequent evolution of large groups of animals that could serve as a source of food for human ancestors.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

Rajesh Kana and Lauren LiberoIn an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men touches different parts of a large animal to find what it is.