Sentences with phrase «of vertebrate»

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

Findings from the past decade of fieldwork and analysis are reported in a publication of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, appearing online March 28.

Our study of annelid development reveals a population of mesodermal cells that converge and extend along the ventral midline and express a combination of transcription factors, signaling molecules, and guidance factors that closely matches that of the vertebrate chordamesoderm.

This analysis suggests that Dazl originated around the time of vertebrate radiation, likely in the ancestral lineage of bony fish (Figure 1).

The 2015 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Divisions of Vertebrate Morphology and Comparative Biomechanics of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology will be held on Saturday November 14, 2015.

«It's a story without an ending,» says Wu Xinzhi, a palaeontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing.

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.

The fossil assemblage, called the Daohugou Biota, is described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Developing zebrafish methodology to model genetic and environmental modifiers of the vertebrate stress response system (SRS).

Plenary Address: Kerstin Lindblad - Tho Professor in Comparative Genomics, Uppsala University, Sweden; Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute, USA.

The rare find is the first time scientists have unearthed complete pterosaur eggs, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology announced Thursday.

Before 1992, there had been 124 conservation translocations of vertebrate species; by 2005 the number was up to 424.

2) Facility license for experimental utilization and care of vertebrate animals in research and training (mandatory for all experimental manipulations requiring anaesthesia).

Sequencing the zebrafish genome provided evidence of more than 26,000 protein - coding genes, the largest set of any vertebrate sequenced so far.

Throughout his career, Jessell has focused on the early wiring of the vertebrate central nervous system.

«It was exciting to see that half of the domestication signals in the genome point to genes that have to do with brain development and function», says professor Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, senior author and director of SciLifeLab Uppsala, and scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute.

Dominic Schmidt spoke about the evolution of vertebrate transcriptional regulator binding, while Weizhe Hong described his research on the complex connections of the nervous system.

Furthermore, the animal experimentation follows the European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes (ETS No. 123) with its appendix A. All animal experiments are and will be carried out in full accordance with the Law and the Decree, which state that the work with animals is carried out only under specific authorizations that include licenses for the personnel, housing of the animals, and also individual experiments.

«At first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statement.

MASS & EXTINCTION ► Humans and livestock are 97 % of land vertebrate biomass ► Humans and livestock eat 40 % of land chlorophyll biomass ► 50 % of vertebrate species died off in the last 50 years.

Associate Professor in the Forestry & Environment Resources Department at NC State University whose research includes «the evolutionary ecology of vertebrate responses to human modification of habitats, and on the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems»

Dr Shi has been studying the molecular basis of thyroid hormone regulation of vertebrate development by using Xenopus metamorphosis as a model system.

The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (Vega) database is a community resource for browsing manual annotation from a variety of vertebrate genomes of finished sequence (http://vega.sanger.ac.uk).

In their current studies, the Salk scientists sought to determine if vitamin A, linked to a variety of developmental disorders, played a role in left - right orientation among a variety of vertebrate animals.

► 50 % of vertebrate species will die off in next 40 years.

Visiting researcher Carlos Mauricio Peredo and colleagues from George Mason University in Virginia recently published their research, including naming the new species, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (Vega) database (http://vega.sanger.ac.uk) has been designed to be a community resource for browsing manual annotation of finished sequences from a variety of vertebrate genomes.

According to recent estimates, while over 30 % of vertebrate genomes is transcribed (2), only 1 % consists of coding genes, suggesting that the rest must be various types of non-coding RNA genes.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

She said studies investigating these questions could yield insights into the evolution of the vertebrate adaptive immune system.

Multi-scale interplay between environmental temperature and stress hormones deepens complexity of vertebrate function

'' (Lythronax's) forward - facing eyes, powerful limbs and large size would have made it an efficient hunter of both duckbilled dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs like Diabloceratops,» added co-author Joseph Sertich, curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Her research combines the disciplines of paleontology, comparative anatomy, and development to formulate and test phylogenetic hypotheses of vertebrate interrelationships.

She is particularly concerned with assessing the role that fossils play in the interpretation of modern biodiversity and phylogenetics, as well as the role that phenotypic variation plays in the interpretation of vertebrate fossils and systematics.

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Salt Lake City, October 27, 2016.

Studies investigating these questions could yield insights into the evolution of the vertebrate adaptive immune system.

Risk Assessment Form (3) Required for projects using hazardous chemicals, activities or devices, and some PHBA's including protists, composting, coliform test kits, decomposition of vertebrate organisms and microbial fuel cells and must be completed and signed by the DS or QS prior to student experimentation.

We recovered new fossils pertaining to all of these vertebrate groups — including significant new marine reptile and bird material — and collected an abundance of additional geological data.

It's 400 million years old, and is shared among 70 % of all vertebrate species.

«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.»

Reservoir of mutations enabled cichlid fish to adapt to varied environments; results shed light on mechanisms of vertebrate evolution

A new study published in BMC Evolutionary Biology by the team lead by Xesús Abalo and Dan Larhammar, Department of Neuroscience and SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate vision and the specialisations in zebrafish to adapt to changing lighting conditions.

He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of vertebrate developmental biology and microRNA - based gene regulation using the model organism zebrafish.

The Donald Brown laboratory uses amphibian metamorphosis to study complex developmental programs such as the development of vertebrate organs.

The paper is titled «Ancient evolutionary origin of vertebrate enteric neurons from trunk - derived neural crest.»

Jornal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:1110 - 1119.

F. Robin O'Keefe (Marshall University, Huntington, WV), and his colleagues reported at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology that these reptiles employed a unique mode of feeding.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

Dr Louys returned from the project's latest expedition to East Timor in August and has presented the findings at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas.