Sentences with phrase «of a gibbon»
«The complete sequencing of the gibbon genome was pending until now,» says Christian Roos, a scientist from the Primate Genetics Laboratory at the DPZ.
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«According to our analysis, the last common ancestor of apes and humans lived under conditions that best fit to the size of a gibbon,» Grabowski reports.
An international team of researchers that includes Christian Roos, Markus Brameier and Lutz Walter from the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, have decoded the genome of gibbons from Southeast Asia.
In their genome analysis, the researchers discovered that the genetic information of the gibbons differs in their entirety from that of humans and of apes.
Just getting things ready requires the brawn and savvy of an oil rigger and the agility of a gibbon.
This is such a cute idea: sip wine while among the company of gibbons, flamingos, otters, and all the animals of Stone Zoo.
They found it was most likely caused inadvertently by the unregulated international trading of gibbons and laboratory work on viruses in US military and other medical research facilities.
We also analysed correspondence about the transportation of gibbons during the 60s and 70s, laboratory and zoological records to discover the origin of the retrovirus and how it could have been transmitted.»
Lecturer in Veterinary Cellular Microbiology, Dr Rachael Tarlinton, explained: «We thought the strange outbreak of gibbon ape leukemia and lymphoma in certain colonies fifty years ago was an enigma worth investigating, not least to see if we could find any evidence that GALV is still a problem among live populations today.
Their first appearance can be traced back with a high probability to the time of the splitting of the gibbons from the line of apes and humans.
This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.
In the course of evolution, genes that favored the adaptation of the gibbons to their way of life, continued to develop.
Analyses of the phylogenetic development of the gibbon line also indicate a connection to the existence of the LAVA transposons.
If you get lucky, your guide is likely to shimmer his flashlights on the red eyes of a gibbon, samba deer, or mouse deer, the latter being a petite, pointy - nosed cross between a deer and, of course, a mouse.
A canopy walk offers breathtaking views as well as sightings of gibbons and hornbills.
To come to this conclusion, the team, led by DeCasien, put together a dataset of 140 primate species, including animals like the aye - aye and several species of gibbon.
«Last ape and human ancestor was about the size of a gibbon.»
Comparisons with the genome data of humans and our closest relatives, the great apes, show that while we all genetically have the same ancestors, the genetic information of the gibbons has changed more rapidly and stronger in the course of the evolutionary process.
The animal had a short snout, similar to that of a gibbon but unlike other apes.