Sentences with phrase «on vertebrates»

How these will be affected and what impact that will have on vertebrates as well as invertebrates is not sufficiently studied, an opinion based on a feeling that we ought to know such things and we don't.

**** CO2 effect on vertebrates Vic / November 21, 2016 Ocean acidification's other evil twin — Blood acidification..

(to 5 ft, with 3 [1 / / 2]- inch tail) Widespread in Belize and Guatemala but rare, they occur in essentially all wild habitats and feed on vertebrates ranging from snakes to deer.

The short - term effects of an extensive and high - intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia.

Writers associated with our team have highly professional degrees and know how to complete assignments on vertebrates and how to keep all their assignments structurally correct and strong.

protected animals» (i.e., bacteria, fungi, plants, invertebrate animals); studies on vertebrates at early stages of development (before they become?

«We started working on vertebrates about 4 years ago not knowing anything about animal physiology, and we just started learning as we went along.»

With that new bounty, the researchers were able to catalog many more of the creature's features — enough to place it on the vertebrate family tree.

The performance of our workflow was assessed on vertebrate genome assemblies of various qualities (platypus, pig, horse, dog, mouse and human).

It's run by an artificial brain modeled on the vertebrate or mammalian brain.

A spider that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing female mosquitoes as prey.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

Tissue - and time - dependent transcription in Ixodes ricinus salivary glands and midguts when blood feeding on the vertebrate host.

Some specialized diets, such as ectoparasitism (insects feeding on vertebrate hosts), evolve rarely and act as evolutionary traps, from which other diets do not easily evolve, whilst others, such as predation and fungivory, evolve frequently and readily give rise to other dietary types.

Not exact matches

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@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

No, he killed every land vertebrate which was not on the ark: Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

2) It appears that god only asked to take the land vertebrates on the ark, the inverts died or survived by themselves by clinging to floating stuff, flying, using air pockets in earth or something like this.

There is no need to recall Haeckel's blasphemy about a gaseous vertebrate: suffice it to remind ourselves of the classical tradition of religious philosophy with its insistence that God can not be defined except in negatives — apoios, without quality, the ontos on, the thelon, (See Philo.

Given a system or composite of individuals, all on a comparable level, for instance molecular or cellular, then in some cases, given integration of activities (thus molecules in a cell, or cells in a vertebrate animal), there may be what Leibniz called a «dominant monad» or what Whitehead calls a «society of presiding occasions.»

Life on this planet has, in the context of its limitations, managed a threefold success: plant and animal life, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humankind.

«I expect this to be common because the human predator preys on just about every medium - to - large vertebrate on the planet,» he says.

But is it fair to equate historical constraints with defects in describing how vertebrate photoreceptors are on the back of the «inside - out» retina, shadowed by blood vessels and overlying cells?

«This may provide a better understanding of what was going on inside primitive vertebrates,» she says.

On closer inspection, however, the gene we had discovered in vertebrates proved not to be a retrovirus gene at all.

Anchiornis possesses well - developed feathers on all four limbs, and comes from a «critical stage along the line to birds», says Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

These fins were made for walking, and that's just what these fish do — thanks to wiring that evolved long before vertebrates set foot on land.

The study published yesterday in Nature Ecology and Evolution analyzed data on more than 11,000 vertebrate species, including fossil records from the past 270 million years.

But when nature settles on the same solution to a difficult problem more than once, as it did with vertebrates and cephalopods, it is worth paying attention.

However, there doesn't seem to be any such surface structure on the cells of vertebrates.

David Hone at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, report that tooth marks on the 70 - million - year - old bone match the pattern and shape of the teeth of Tarbosaurus, an Asian tyrannosaur nearly as big as T. rex (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, DOI: 10.4202 / app.2009.0133).

«Wolves rely on large prey to survive,» said Benson, assistant professor of vertebrate ecology who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Trent University.

The researchers published their results in the journal Neuron, becoming the first to show the effects of sleep / wake cycles and time of day on the synapses of a living vertebrate.

In recent years, Xenoturbella has been regarded as either close to vertebrates and echinoderms, or as a more distant relative on its own branch further away.

It's certainly possible that Chilesaurus is something other than a theropod, «but the analysis they use to test this is problematic,» says Martin Ezcurra, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Natural Science Museum who was an author on the original Chilesaurus paper.

This gallery highlights some of their discoveries, and shows what it takes for scientists to operate in one of the least hospitable places on Earth, which, as it turns out, played a key role in the evolution and migration of the planet's vertebrates, including mammals.

Victoria Arbour, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the research, says that the study «reasonably seals the deal» on the long - standing mystery.

«They would likely have fed on small vertebrates and fruits.»

Adult males of the B. micra species grow to only just over a half - inch (16 millimeters) from nose to bottom, making them one of the smallest vertebrates ever found on Earth.

Now they have $ 2.5 million in National Science Foundation funding in hand, and on 1 September they will launch their project: oVert, for «Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D.»

Hong - yu Yi of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, says she's reserving judgment on the specimen's identity until further analysis.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

The study is «a very welcome and very clever addition to the really limited information we have on dinosaur color and coloration patterns,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.

Unlike the previous studies that focused on certain species or a particular RNA virus, Skalka went broad: She and her colleagues surveyed every vertebrate genome available, 48 in all, and looked for hints of 5666 RNA viral sequences from 38 known families and nine genera that were unclassified.

«The onset of left - right symmetry in vertebrates is still unknown, and our work may shed light on this,» says Reiko Kuroda, who led the team at the University of Tokyo, Japan, that reversed snail «handedness».

Wear patterns suggest its owner chewed on hard or bony animals like the frogs and turtles whose fossils were found in the same quarry in Queensland, Australia (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 33, p1).

When humans began settling on the island about 2,300 years ago, Madagascar's large vertebrate populations were the first casualties.

The vertebrates could therefore have been deaf for the first 100 million years on land.

Candidate at the University of Alberta, will present the team's research findings at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, held this year in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) on Friday, Aug. 25th.

These spiders are opportunistic hunters that prey on small invertebrates and vertebrates.