Sentences with phrase «of tadpoles»

Expected to open in 2018, the 11 - 18 school will be built on the plot as part of the Tadpole Farm housing development.

This song anticipates the development of tadpoles from frog spawn.

To see if cooperative parenting translated to monogamy in R. imitator, the researchers compared DNA from the toes of the parent frogs and the tails of their tadpoles.

The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder.

Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, energetic and wriggling through the clear water against the background of the brown earth.

She is asking me to ask you to please put some photos of tadpoles up when they hatch (not sure that «hatch» is the right word for frog spawn but I can't think what else to use).

And we were in disbelief at the number of tadpoles we saw in a vernal pool at Moose Hill.

At this time, the embryo begins to lengthen and take on the appearance of a tadpole thanks, in part, to the development of the all - important neural tube that runs from the top to the bottom of the embryo.

But chemical cues build up if lots of tadpoles are excreting waste into the water, and these make the tadpoles more competitive.

Many species of tadpole have been known to resort to cannibalism occasionally, but it is not clear what drives them to it.

The trematode, a parasite that tunnels under the skin of tadpoles, has been implicated in frog deformities throughout North America.

The bodies of these tadpole - like creatures are just a few centimetres long, but the mucus «houses» they secrete can be a metre across.

«Coloma has been testing different types of tadpole food,» says Gray.

The tough - yet - fragile physical properties of the tadpole - shaped pieces of glass known as Prince Rupert's drops have puzzled physicists for as long as, well, there have been physicists.

Back in Boston, Warkentin's team will look at the inner ear of each tadpole to confirm that the structures were fully developed when they hatched.

However, a 2012 lab study conducted at Oklahoma State University by Belden's collaborator Scott McMurry did not find damage to the growth and development of tadpoles at the levels that Kuivila's research team found in waterways.

When they created MR images of the tadpoles that grew from these embryos, bright spots indicated where the enzyme was active — in half the animal — and the spots correlated closely with standard stains of enzyme activity done by sectioning the tadpole, they report in the March Nature Biotechnology.

Why Edward Heath, when he became prime minister, kept him on as his Chief Scientific Adviser beggars belief, especially as earlier, when he was Leader of the Opposition, Heath had referred to Zuckerman as a «professor of tadpoles».

«If you don't have the right kind of pool habitat for adults to select for breeding or to sustain the development of tadpoles through metamorphosis, it doesn't matter how hard you work to save the species.»

Relyea suspects the lethal ingredient in Roundup is not glyphosate, but polyethoxylated tallow amine (POEA), a surfactant that allows the herbicide to penetrate the waxy surfaces of plants and may interfere with the function of the tadpole gills.

Events as different as the formation of limbs, the remodeling of organs, and the resorption of tadpole tissues such as the tail are all directed by TH.

YFP - expressing pluripotent cells did not form neural tissue (retina or brain), but were always observed in the epidermis of tadpoles.

The team believes this may mean that overly high salinity can decrease the frog population as salt molecules mimic testosterone, causing the masculinization of tadpoles.

The image features a side view of the head region of a tadpole of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, from the lab of assistant professor Ai - Sun Tseng in the school of life sciences.

They performed an electrophysiological analysis of each tadpole's optic tectum, a part of the brain responsible for processing visual information.

In a series of experiments, researchers found that the proportion of females within populations of tadpoles was reduced by 10 percent when exposed to road salt, or sodium chloride, suggesting that the salt has a masculinizing effect.

In the «competitive environment,» we doubled the density of tadpoles for each species.

In one experiment they shined moving patterns of light into one side of the tadpole tanks from below.

In fact, some people pick them out, because of the tadpole - like appearance or ask for their meal without it.

«Additionally, when they changed the diets of DHA - deficient mothers to include a proper level of this dietary fatty acid, the neuronal and synaptic growth flourished and returned to normal in the following generation of tadpoles,» said Cohen - Cory.

Love short walks on the beach I have a collection of tadpoles in my basement I'm currently pursuing a career in the NBA

They studied the characteristics of different frog species throughout the world (Lucy's personal favorite is the red - eyed tree frog), they got an up - close - and - personal view of the life cycle of a frog by caring for an aquarium full of tadpoles, and they wove their study of frogs into a wide variety of reading, writing, and art activities.

I know this because I've seen their Padlet wall of questions, witnessed the delivery of tadpoles, and watched a young boy read to his amphibian friend — all through Twitter.

Back in the mid-90s, when the Internet was still the size of a tadpole and TV was still the Big Kahuna, I was working in a large advertising agency that had many big, blue - chip clients.

BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 9, 2015 — Teaching Strategies, the Bethesda, Maryland based educational company that publishes The Creative Curriculum ® and GOLD ®, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tadpoles, a leading provider of child management solutions to the private childcare market.

The Tadpole galaxy (top left) sports a long tail of stars and gas pulled out by the gravity of a galactic interloper, visible as a small blue clump in the upper part of the Tadpole's disk.

For their latest study, they removed the left eye from one tadpole and attached it near the tail of another tadpole.

The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder.»

Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, energetic and wriggling through the clear water against the background of the brown earth.

When he removed a part of the tadpoles» brains that signals the shutdown of the gene in cells in the middle of the single eye band, allowing two separate eyes to form, he found that one - eyed tadpoles (bottom) were the frightful result.

Some of these clones have long tails, like those of tadpoles: they will leave the host mollusc and seek out a second snail to infest.

He says the leaner body shape resembles that of tadpoles found in rivers, where they need to be better swimmers.

In contrast, about 10 % of tadpoles with transplanted eyes were able to learn to avoid the red side of the petri dish, compared with about 40 % of the tadpoles with intact eyes.