Sentences with phrase «mechanisms in vertebrate»
Research activities are also concentrated on the identification of disease mechanisms in vertebrates with the ultimate goal to identify molecular targets and cells with therapeutical potential.
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Several of the network genes Volkan and her team identified have counterparts in humans and other vertebrates, which suggests the same basic mechanism could be at work in building the nervous system in other animals too.
«The fundamental mechanisms are probably going to be the same in all vertebrates, as even frogs and fish have gaze control,» Knudsen says.
«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.
On page 812 of this issue, Sallan and Galimberti (1) show that trends in the body sizes of vertebrates during the Devonian and Mississippian (about 420 to 325 million years ago) not only are markedly different at different times but also likely reflect a variety of different evolutionary mechanisms.
In the brains of all vertebrates, information is transmitted through synapses, a mechanism that allows an electric or chemical signal to be passed from one brain cell to another.
Drosophila serves as a model organism that helps geneticists to decode the molecular fundamentals of cellular biology and unravel mechanisms that are conserved in human beings and other vertebrates.
The mechanism stems from the vestibular system — structures in the inner ear that help vertebrates balance, sense movement and determine their position in space.
«Similar mechanisms are present in vertebrates and flies,» Andretic told me.
From an evolutionary perspective, the findings reveal that sophisticated immune defense mechanisms in respiratory surfaces came about very early in vertebrate evolution.
«There has been a lot of recent research showing that these behaviors — like aggression or reproduction or parental care — are sort of ubiquitously distributed across vertebrates, and the mechanisms that promote and maintain those behaviors are similar in all species,» DeAngelis said.
«Branchial rays will figure prominently in the story of the evolutionary origin of vertebrate animal appendages, either by shedding light on the evolutionary antecedent of paired fins / limbs, or by teaching us about the genetic mechanisms that animals can use to invent new appendages,» Gillis says.
«This is an exciting finding, because it indicates that the molecular mechanisms underlying the segmentation clock are really quite ancient,» says David Turner, a neurobiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who studies Notch in vertebrates.
«Parasitic fish offer evolutionary insights: Vertebrates once might have relied on a different mechanism for developing neurons in the gut.»
Lamprey show that vertebrates once might have relied on a different mechanism for developing neurons in the gut.
«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»
Dr. Jessell, the Claire Tow professor in the departments of Neuroscience and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, was selected for his pioneering work in discovering the principles of the molecular mechanisms that direct neuronal diversity and circuit assembly in the vertebrate central nervous system.
A new study from SciLifeLab / Uppsala University published in PLOS ONE shows that genes crucial for vision were multiplied in the early stages of vertebrate evolution and acquired distinct functions leading to the sophisticated mechanisms of vertebrate eyes.
«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»
«Drosophila approximates many of the fundamental mechanisms of early development in vertebrates,» Bonini says.