Sentences with phrase «on organismal»
Scientists will explore other proposed categories of non-coding sequences, including DNA elements such as «super-enhancers» and topological domain boundary elements, and their functional impact on organismal biology and health.
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Predation risk has strong effects on organismal physiology that can cascade to impact ecosystem structure and function.
We report a variety of biallelic effects on organismal phenotype attributable to combinations of recessive Xpd alleles, including the following: (i) the ability of homozygous lethal Xpd alleles to ameliorate a variety of disease symptoms when their essential basal transcription function is supplied by a different disease - causing allele, (ii) differential developmental and tissue - specific functions of distinct Xpd allele products, and (iii) interallelic complementation, a phenomenon rarely reported at clinically relevant loci in mammals.
In particular, it has been difficult in empirical studies to rule out the possibility that evolvability arises and is maintained as a byproduct of selection on organismal features more directly related to fitness.
Not exact matches
Liz writes about biology, focusing primarily on genomics, evolution, microbiology, and organismal biology, with a smattering of ecology and behavior thrown in.
«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.
«We all know that some percentage are way off on the tail end of the distribution, and we're never going to reach them,» says Steven Rissing, a professor of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology and a specialist in undergraduate education at Ohio State University, Columbus.
«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.
His research focuses on the origins of adaptations and biodiversity at both the molecular and organismal levels.
And it could open the door to better recipes for the anti-venom used to rescue hikers and others who find themselves on the wrong end of a rattlesnake encounter, said lead researcher Matthew Holding, a graduate student in evolution, ecology and organismal biology.
Holding's collaborators on the California study were H. Lisle Gibbs, an Ohio State professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology, and James Biardi of Fairfield University in Connecticut.
«The degree to which we can or can not accurately estimate the number of species or the scale of organismal diversity on Earth is a measure of our ignorance in understanding the ecological and evolutionary forces that create and maintain the biodiversity on our planet.
Overall, these studies will progress our understanding on how organismal aging is an integrated process resulting from signaling events in muscle and other tissues.
We will study how signaling mechanisms impact homeostasis in cell - free, cell - based, and organismal systems, with a particular focus on the highly topical role of autophagy in different processes and studying autophagic mechanisms in depth.
«If you showed me the skeleton of this creature and asked me to make a bet on whether it walks or not, I would have bet it couldn't,» said co-author Neil Shubin, PhD, Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.
Our laboratory is focused on understanding how lipids contribute to membrane function and organismal fitness from synthetic protocells to microorganisms.
The most recent grant on the list is the 2004 expedition to the Canadian Arctic co-led by Shubin, PhD, the Robert R. Bensley Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, which discovered the first fossils of Tiktaalik on Ellsmere Island.
«In a number of these trackways, the animals alternate their limbs, which suggested that they must have been made by tetrapods walking on a solid substrate,» said Melina Hale, PhD, associate professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.
But linking HAR mutations to organismal innovations is hard, given the obvious limitations on testing the effects of genetic changes in humans or apes.
Research at the Hubrecht Institute focuses on developmental biology and stem cells at the organismal, cellular, and molecular level.
Laboratory focuses on cellular physiology through investigations of the parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and organismal physiology through research on marine invertebrate larvae.
Her research focuses on understanding the causes of organismal diversity patterns found over geologic time, particularly that of ungulates.
Computational Algorithms and Tools (Bruce Aronow, Section Editor): This section focuses on the generation of databases, analysis tools, or large scale analyses carried out from new or established datasets that generate hypotheses into the structure and function of physiological systems at the sub cellular or organismal level.
Focusing on the well - known «Cambrian Explosion,» Meyer argued that evolutionary theory could not account for the appearance of new organismal forms in a relatively short period of geological time.
The advent of modern molecular techniques, however, provides an alternative means of assessing organismal history, and thereby shedding light on historical climate conditions (1, 14).