Sentences with phrase «number of different species»

This is the question that intrigued Chrissy Huffard, a Senior Researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, after observing the behavior in a number of different species.

In addition to the sperm whale a number of different species of may also be seen including dolphins, seals and a wide variety of sea birds including the Royal Albatross.

Lactobacillus or acidophilus are bacteria found in the GI tracts of a number of different species.

There are a number of different species and they all require very distinct care.

Each possesses a vast number of different species — many found Cat owners gathered in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for a chance to exhibit their cats at an annual event.

Each possesses a vast number of different species — many found

Each possesses a vast number of different species — many found Many animal species have mate - selection rituals also referred to as courtship anthropomorphically.

Each possesses a vast number of different species — many found Nylon Lovers.

«No other country has the logistics we have in place, or the number of different species we can derive ethanol from.»

The Pacific monitor lineage to which the new species belongs have been so successful at oversea dispersal that a number of different species now occupy almost every island from the Moluccas in Indonesia to the eastern Solomon Islands and even Micronesia.

Additionally, because of the sheer number of different species that live there, 85 % of all future hybrid meet - ups occurred in the tropics.

The review's sole author, Dr. Patricia Lopes from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that animals from a number of different species will eat and drink less, reduce their activity and sleep more when they are sick in order to conserve energy for their recovery.

Species diversity in particular is a subcategory of biodiversity that refers to the number of different species represented in a set.

A meta - analysis of ecosystems finds that species losses in any given place do not yet translate to large changes in the number of different species in that place.

There are various sceneries and especially the mountains of the Flinders Ranges as the colours change from dawn to dusk, with abundant wildlife, especially the large numbers of different species of kangaroos and native birds.

We don't have good information on the base of the food chain for most of the past — that's just «noise» but now that we start having ways to track trends in primary productivity — what's being made out of sunlight, water and CO2, by which organisms, and how fast do their populations change (remembering that some plankton populations turn over a new generation in a couple of weeks so relative numbers of different species can change that fast across the oceans).

Not exact matches

If someone were to create this planet, universe, and all the life that exists, they wouldn't waste their time creating 350,000 different species of beetles, or 12,000 different species of roundworm, or the countless number of other species that have inhabited the earth.

There are no real volcanoes in the area, but there is a deep limestone cave that's home to eight different species of bats, with totals numbering several million.

For products with As concentrations of more than 300 ng / g, a different lot number sample was purchased and tested using ICP - MS for total As and high - performance liquid chromatography with ICP - MS for As species.

A number of different animals have been hunted with dogs, including foxes, deer, hares and mink, with each quarry species hunted in a different way.

Volunteers for the aptly named AMBLE regularly walked beaches in Door County in Wisconsin, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, recording the number of sick and dead birds of different species.

This is especially concerning given that the number of different microbial species in the intestines may be important in countering pathogens.

By comparing the numbers of nerve cells, or neurons, among eight species of carnivores (ferret, banded mongoose, raccoon, cat, dog, hyena, lion and brown bear), researchers now have a better understanding of how different - sized brains are built.

Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.

Sterility is often attributed to the different number of chromosomes the two species have, for example donkeys have 62 chromosomes, while horses have 64 chromosomes, and mules and hinnies have 63 chromosomes.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.

Synchrotron X-ray imaging on different species showed that the transmission of the sound from the oral cavity to the inner ear has been optimized by two evolutionary adaptations: a reduced thickness of the tissue between the mouth and the inner ear and a smaller number of tissue layers between the mouth and the inner ear.

To carry out the study, the team visualised a number of motors from different species of bacteria using a variant of a method called cryo - election microscopy, whose pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.

Additionally the number of individuals fluctuated strongly between different years for species that had little or no colour variation,» says Dr Markus Franzén from the UFZ, who was responsible for the fieldwork.

The researchers compared trends in the numbers of waterbirds, including Australian pelicans, black swans, different duck species and shorebirds, across both basins, as well as separately in their main river systems and key wetlands.

«Prior to the 2016 mass bleaching event, we observed significant variation in the number of fish species, total fish abundance and functional diversity among different fish communities.

Bacteroides's numbers plunged, whereas the prevalence of species in a different microbial group, the Clostridiales, increased.

Unlike sweet taste, which has only one or perhaps two different receptor types, the number of functional bitter taste receptor types — those that are able to respond to bitter compounds — varies greatly across species.

Sensitivity is a measure of how much species» numbers change as a result of year - to - year changes in the weather — each species is sensitive to different aspects of the climate, such as winter temperature or summer rainfall.

The number of the odonate species is relatively small and identifying different species is easier than with other insect groups.

The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks — which can give clues about the vertebrate host — as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities.

A number of them seek enlightenment by comparing places that are rich and poor in species and trying to figure out the other things that make them different.

Studies of tiger salamanders and the Asian salamander Hynobius retardatus have found that cannibal morphs develop when larvae are crowded in large numbers and are mostly unrelated (same species but from different parents).

However, when researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Toronto mated Caenorhabditis worms of different species, they found that the lifespan of the female worms and their number of progeny were drastically reduced compared with females that mated with the same species.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

(Isotopes are species of the same element, albeit with different numbers of neutrons and hence different atomic masses.)

When food is plentiful and chimps are more chummy, they harbor an increased number of different bacterial species in their bellies.

«In this study, we were interested in comparing different species of carnivorans to see how the numbers of neurons in their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brains.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

Juan Romero and Rolf Williams at the UK's National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth are sceptical that such numbers of two different species would be driven ashore by a predator.

And estimates of species numbers can vary by two to three orders of magnitude, even when applied to the same sample, because different software packages are being used to analyse the amplified genes7.

Together they examined the eggs of 56 species from different families of butterflies and moths, whose number of micropyles varied from one to 15.

After drawing from the Paleobiology Database to measure diversity — or the number of species — for fossil mammals, Grossnickle and Newham turned to teeth to see how different they were from each other.

This is an occurrence where members of the same species separate until, for a number of different possible reasons, they are no longer able to reproduce with one another.

Our results support the well - known fact in different mammalian species that IVC increases the transcription at blastocyst stage of a large number of genes, suggesting a decrease in repressive epigenetic marks [7, 44].