Sentences with phrase «new genus of»

A new genus of flea and its five new species have been described in an article in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

In 2010, Rodrigo Ferreira of the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil and colleagues discovered a new genus of insect which they named Neotrogla.

On the off chance that the dinosaur turns out to be a new genus of brachiosaurid, the museum plans to name it Sonorasaurus thompsoni.

Researchers have decoded the chemistry of the first of a wealth of unique compounds produced by a new genus of bacteria that dwells in deep - ocean sediments, and they have found it to be a potent inhibitor of human cancers in lab experiments.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Among the rich finds: a fossil sand dollar that Charles Darwin picked up in Patagonia in 1834, during his voyage on the Beagle; an exquisite coiled boa constrictor skeleton, 300 vertebrae long; and Nabokov's wooden cabinet of butterfly genitalia, the study of which enabled him to name seven new genera of Latin American blues.

Not exact matches

It is the transformation of the classical genera story into something new.

But let us be clear: the specific difference, which in relation to a known genus makes a new concept, is rooted in a discrete and specific datum of the senses, which in its turn is based on real difference in the physical world.

She wrote to her sister Everina in 1787 that she was trying to become «the first of a new genus» of women — what some today might call «liberated».

The New World genus Capsicum is a member of the Solanaceae, a large tropical family.

The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

The team designated four new species groups within the genus; Francisella opportunistica, an opportunistic pathogen of immune compromised patients; Francisella salina and Francisella uliginis, environmental isolates from coastal seawater near Galveston, TX; and Francisella frigiditurris from cooling - tower water in California.

The jaguar (Panthera onca)(Brazilian Portuguese: onça pintada) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four «big cats» in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World.

When a new disease like SARS threatens to become pandemic, it becomes obvious why we need experts who can track the source of the disease not just to bats in general but to Chinese horseshoe bats of the genus Rhinolophus.

The foot and ankle bone seen here belonged to a large, plant - eating sauropodomorph called Glacialisaurus hammeri, a new genus and species of dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago.

The two genera of New World deer, Mazama and Pudu, were found to be polyphyletic, which was already known for Mazama, but has been shown for the first time in Pudu.

With the assistance of Global Explorer, a ROV equipped with a high definition color video camera and digital still camera, the researchers were able to snap some of the first pictures of numerous species that are believed to be new to science, including this red medusa jellyfish, which belongs to the genus Atolla.

They looked like those of modern Asiatic kiangs, but thanks to the research of my esteemed colleagues they are now known to belong to a new genus,» said Harington.

But a new skull from North America, discovered in Colorado along with the re-examination of another skull from Japan have tripled the number of species in the genus with a greatly expanded geographical range.

Closer scrutiny revealed the spores to belong to a new species of microsporidian in the genus Steinhausia — persuasive enough evidence for Cunningham and Daszak to conclude that the parasite finished off the snails.

An international team of scientists have discovered two new plankton - eating fossil fish species of the genus called Rhinconichthys (Rink - O - nik - thees) from the oceans of the Cretaceous Period, about 92 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the planet.

In keeping with the naming of its living relative (after an Eastern Cape river), the species name of the new fossil form, kowiensis, is after the Kowie River which rises among the hills where it was found, and the genus name, Serenichthys, honours Serena Gess, who provided land for the storage of more than 70 tons of black shale rescued from roadworks for ongoing research — in which all the new material was found.

Brennan Riley Nashua, New Hampshire Corey S. Powell, senior editor, responds: By general agreement, there is no such genus as Brontosaurus — it was an Apatosaurus body with the wrong head attached (kind of like Batman wearing Superman's head, to extend your analogy).

Probably the most surprising aspect of what Mikovits said that day, however, had to do with the fact that the new virus appeared to be in the murine leukemia family, which belonged to the larger retrovirus genus known as gammaretroviruses.

Michael Donoghue and Erika Edwards, plant evolution researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, analyzed water conservation mechanisms in the cactus genus Pereskia, an assortment of leafy shrubs and trees that are thought to represent the ancestral state of living cacti.

A research team led by Scott Gardner of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has identified four new species of Ctenomys, a genus of gopher - like mammal found throughout much of South America.

The careful examination of fossil fragments from Panama has led Smithsonian scientists and colleagues to the discovery of a new genus and species of river dolphin that has been long extinct.

The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.

The researchers think they have collected three other species of this new genus, but have yet to describe and name them.

Back in 1992, a short scientific paper noted the fossil and classified it as a bony fish belonging to the genus Dialipina, based on the scales and the head bones» similarity to those of bony fish called Dialipina from the New Siberian Islands.

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The name of the new genus, Isthminia, recognizes both the Panama Isthmus and the fossil specimen's living relative, the Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis.

Researchers have described a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico — the Oaxaca Cave Sleeper.

Former PhD student in the University of Otago's Department of Geology, Cheng - Hsiu Tsai and his supervisor, Professor Ewan Fordyce, have named the new genus Toipahautea waitaki, which translates in Māori as a baleen - origin whale from the Waitaki region.

The researchers have named this new species Rukwanyoka holmani; the genus name combines the Rukwa region name with the Swahili word for snake, and the species name is in honor of J. Alan Holman, a paleontologist and mentor.

The new genus is represented by two extinct species, Pseudomegachasma casei from Russia and Pseudomegachasma comanchensis from the U.S. that evolved from a group of extinct sandtiger sharks that likely had a fish - eating diet.

The study not only describes a new genus and species of bird - like dinosaur that lived during the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous in Mongolia but also sheds light on an unexpected amphibious lifestyle for raptorial dinosaurs.

Consider, for example, species of the genus Artemisia, extracts of which have given rise to a promising new treatment for malaria as well as to the drink absinthe, under whose influence Van Gogh may have sliced off his ear.

Genetic studies of the kipunji, a threatened monkey in Tanzania, reveal that it belongs to a new primate genus — the first to be identified in 83 years.

Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, described the new species and published a revision of the genus Liturgusa in the open access journal ZooKeys.

Using the Hi - C technique, the team identified a yeast belonging to the genus Pichia, which turned out to be a hybrid of a known species called P. membranifaciens and another Pichia species completely new to science, the team recently reported on the preprint server bioRxiv.

One example for such an association has now been reported by an international team of researchers in the journal New Phytologist: a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants (endophytically) and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes.

In conclusion, the scientists note that the rarity of the observed snake species, especially the genus, where the new serpent belongs, accounts for the unclear species - boundaries as well as for the myriad of undescribed species.

Fossils of a human species new to science could be the direct ancestor of our genus, Homo.

A different take comes from William H. Kimbel, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, who argues on the basis of the advanced features of the face and pelvis that the new fossils «probably belong in the Homo genus.»

«A new species and genus of «horned necked» praying mantis from a French museum collection.»

A revision of the fossil swifts (Vertebrata, Aves, suborder Apodi), with descriptions of three new genera and two new species

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

Based on analysis of more than 300 teeth, skull and lower - body measurements, Alba and colleagues assign the partial skeleton to a new genus and species of ancient ape, Pliobates cataloniae.