Sentences with phrase «of amphibians into»

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It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

Once ashore, these four - limbed vertebrates, called tetrapods, branched into an impressive range of animals: amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals.

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

Bioaugmentation — taking existing beneficial bacteria, culturing them, and then adding more of them back into a biological system (not too different from eating probiotic yogurt for its purported beneficial effects on the human gut)-- is the key to restoring amphibian populations.

B. dendrobatidis infects more than 520 amphibian species around the world, has caused steep declines in populations of frogs and salamanders, and has driven some species into extinction.

The discovery of several new species of ancient origin can provide useful insights into the evolution of endemic frog lineages in the Western Ghats, which is a leading amphibian hotspot.

Using bioinformatics, the computer wades through the information to give us a full complex of what's in that sample — whether it be invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds — anything that may be coming into contact with the water or soil.

«Non-linear» animal reactions He and his colleagues based their analysis on nearly 500 million temperature records collected at 3,000 weather stations between 1961 and 2009, feeding that information into models that allowed them to estimate how climate shifts affected the metabolism of cold - blooded insects, lizards and amphibians around the world.

Chromatophores produce the colors of all kinds of vertebrates other than reptiles, including fish and amphibians — so the new technique could open a door into seeing the full colors of a wide variety of ancient creatures.

Unlike most amphibians, the mud - colored salamander retained its tadpole form into adulthood, breathed through feathery gills jutting out of the sides of its head, and lived only in a handful of lakes in central Mexico.

To understand TH, director emeritus Donald Brown studies one of the most dramatic roles of the hormone, the control of amphibian metamorphosis — the process by which a tadpole turns into a frog.

Notophthalmus viridescens, an urodelian amphibian, represents an excellent model organism to study regenerative processes, but mechanistic insights into molecular processes driving regeneration have been hindered by a paucity and poor annotation of coding nucleotide sequences.

«Maybe people don't care about amphibians, but imagine if this kind of pathogen had gotten into mammals,» says Vance Vredenburg, an ecologist at San Francisco State University.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

The story goes like this: The Great God of the Forest, a mythical creature with the body of a deer, a human face and wooden horns that morphs into a giant, glistening blue amphibian at night (imagine Cecil, the Sea Serpent, dressed by Bob Mackie), has decreed that the forest gods may use any means to protect their domain from humans.

Forget Skrillex and Beardyman's bass drops, when The World's End comes, cats will bark, amphibians of all kinds will implode into tiny singularities, goats will turn all sorts of colours and then just pop and I'm guessing...

Animated, anthropomorphized animals typically leave behind reality in favor of appeal on the «cute» spectrum, and, with the exception Rango — he with disproportionate head — the rest of the cast of critters topple into the opposite end of the scale (Beans could be another exception, save for the unnatural quality of sticking curly locks atop the head of an amphibian).

Organize students into five groups and assign each group one of the following categories of animals: fish, mammal, bird, amphibian, insect.

We should all be familiar with the story of the Frog Prince who was cursed into taking the form of an amphibian, turning back into a human only after meeting a fair princess.

Along the way, Crono encounters a cast of unique and captivating characters to aid him in his quest from a heroic frog, whose motivation is to defeat the evil Fiendlord who changed him from a medieval knight into an amphibian to a futuristic android from the future who reveals that he enjoys gardening.

«Israeli artist Shahar Marcus's satirical video «Frog Test» (2009) turns toward the absurd forms that pregnancy tests once took — in this case the injection of a woman's urine into a frog's bloodstream; if the amphibian laid eggs within twenty - four hours, it meant the woman was indeed pregnant.»

As a result of globalization and lack of biosecurity, it has recently been introduced into naïve European amphibian populations, where it is currently causing biodiversity loss.

This post is about one of the great, and underappreciated, vanishings under way as the Anthropocene gets into high gear — the loss of a substantial portion of the world's amphibian diversity in the face of a fungus spread by human activities.

No mention of insects though — They are sort of «mushed» into the amphibians and other critters that started in the sea.)

For example, recent work suggests that up to 41 percent of bird species, 66 percent of amphibian species, and between 61 percent and 100 percent of corals that are not now considered threatened with extinction will become threatened due to climate change sometime between now and 2100 (Foden et al., 2013; Ricke et al., 2013), and that in Africa, 10 - 40 percent of mammal species now considered not to be at risk of extinction will move into the critically endangered or extinct categories by 2080, possibly as early as 2050 (Thuiller et al., 2006).

Dr. Klemens» study demonstrated that the proposed project — which seeks to introduce 951 homes into a community with only 988 existing homes (per 2000 U.S. Census for Pine Plains)-- would have significant negative ecological impacts, including the eradication of rare reptile and amphibian species from the site.

Researchers at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., for instance, are currently investigating the effects of sunscreens when they get into water, trying to determine if they harm algae, amphibians or fish.