Sentences with phrase «most vertebrates»

For the first time, researchers have investigated the cheetah's extraordinary sensory abilities by analyzing the speedy animal's inner ear, an organ that is essential for maintaining body balance and adapting head posture during movement in most vertebrates.

Muscle attachment points are sometimes obvious as scars on fossils, and the relationship between muscles and bone is fairly consistent for most vertebrates.

However, like most vertebrate cell lines, target sequences are inserted randomly and stable mutation and expression of the transcript can not be controlled for.

It killed off most of the big guys, according to a new study, and effectively shrunk most vertebrate species to the size of a human forearm or smaller.

Unlike most vertebrates, turtles have ribs that are short and wide, and do not wrap around the body.

oVert will also pick about 1000 of them — representing most vertebrate families — to soak in an iodine dye, which enhances contrast in soft tissues, allowing researchers to see the muscles, circulatory system, brain, and more.

Yet trying to understand the genetic explanations of such questions is surprisingly difficult considering most vertebrate genomes, including our own, are made up of literally billions of DNA bases that can determine how an organism looks and functions,» says Castoe.

Most vertebrate fossils are known from a very limited number of places on Earth, so Christian's goal of understanding the geographic complexity of extinction and recovery is a big one.

They looked specifically for genes coding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- a molecule found on the surface of cells that acts as a crucial component of the immune systems of most vertebrates.

For most vertebrates it's not immediately apparent why genome deletions and add - ons typically go hand - in - hand.

Like most vertebrates, human beings are more or less bilaterally symmetrical.

In most vertebrates and some mollusks, the eye works by allowing light to enter it and project onto a light - sensitive panel of cells known as the retina at the rear of the eye, where the light is detected and converted into electrical signals.

(The cloaca is a combination of genital tract and end of the digestive system found in many invertebrates and most vertebrates, except most mammals.)

In most vertebrates, digestion is a multi-stage process in the digestive system, following ingestion of the raw materials, most often other organisms.

Dr Philip Kollmannsberger, who led the research, said: «Osteocytes and their cell processes «live» in a large, interconnected network of voids permeating the mineralized bone matrix of most vertebrates.

In most vertebrates, muscles associated with the lungs (intercostal muscles) work with the abdominal muscles to control breathing.