Sentences with phrase «other species»

Dramatic changes in species composition may establish other equilibrium energy flows which involve other species compositions than before (ecosystem shift).

Using these data, they then created a coding system for each individual facial movement — just as other researchers have done for humans and several other species.

In the 1990s, Bassler discovered that bacteria can converse not only with members of their own species, but also with other species, allowing them to sense their environment more comprehensively and decide when to launch an attack.

Frigatebirds» ability to survive for long periods on less than an hour of naptime per day is remarkable considering how badly sleep deprivation affects other species, says Rattenborg.

Biologists worry about the hunting pressure the squid will put on other species.

Once experiments were conducted in those models, the findings could be applied to other species.

By developing a pokies - like game for the wallabies, the research — recently published in PLOS ONE by Curtin University's Dr Wiebke Ebeling and colleagues — was able to determine exactly what the animals saw and how their colour perception differed from other species.

As such, it is exciting to find an unexpected receptor response to bitter compounds that has never been described in the literature to date for any other species.

Researchers have little clue about H. floresiensis» evolutionary relationship to other ancient - human relatives, and whether they mated with humans or other species is an open question.

The team set up camera traps to catch the raccoons in action and monitor how 60 other species responded to the piles.

A bite from the biggest great white sharks leaves nearly every other species — both alive and extinct — in the dust.

In ducklings, goslings and other species that depend for survival on following their mothers, newborns learn quickly — a process called filial imprinting.

And compared with three other species in its family — the German cockroach and two termite species — it is actually more closely related to the termites.

These cells have improved the mechanical function in every other species in which they have been tested, so we are optimistic they will do so in this model as well,» Murry said.

«If not, shouldn't we stand to learn something from the past successes and failures of these other species?»

But traffic poses even bigger problems for other species, particularly birds: Worldwide, it kills about a quarter of a billion of the animals annually.

Although this study considers personality inheritance in zebra finches, it raises questions about the inheritance of personality in other species, including humans.

The culprit in that outbreak was the Chinese horseshoe bat, which was stored in cages next to other species for sale.

Hence, according to Fitzgerald speaking from his own experience in class rooms, Hawkeye can instigate discussion on the physiology of the human eye, while also allowing for comparison with other species, such as birds of prey, and reflection on advancements related to genetic engineering and wearable technologies.

For instance, certain fish species produce no males, but the females must have sex to trigger parthenogenic development of unfertilized eggs; the female therefore «mates» with males of other species.

«Unlike these other species, fish and seafood stocks are not generally threatened with biological extinction.

He had shown in previous work that a certain gene turns off limb development in snakes — making snakes essentially limbless four - legged animals — and he wanted to compare that finding in other species.

If similar limits could be established for other species, that data could be incorporated into climate models to better understand which species will likely be able to survive the coming environmental changes.

«Although we don't know the mechanisms yet, repopulation of the gut by bacteria appears to analogous to succession in a forest after it is damaged in a storm,» said microbiologist David Berry: «pioneer species colonize the deforested area, in this case the inflamed intestine, and alter the ecosystem in a way that lets other species colonize and eventually a complex ecosystem can be restored.»

This prospect might seem a long way off, but Caplan argues that if the technique works well in other species, it could become feasible to attempt to engineer humans in as little as 10 years.

Other species like the American bison and many kinds of whales had once played central roles in important ecosystems but had been reduced to small remnant populations.

In Alaska, biologists are learning that when wild salmon are free to swim upstream to spawn, dozens of other species flourish too

Overfishing, in fact, threatens at least a dozen other species.

Motta notes that the tiny teeth used for scale rasping were longer than elsewhere on the sharks» bodies; looking for similarly long spines in other species should help researchers identify other scale raspers, he says.

Other species cluster for unclear reasons: one Panaman species grew in groups of up to 100 meters in diameter, possibly circled around long - gone grandmother trees.

«If humans change the atmosphere and oceans to the detriment of other species,» Kevin Raskoff says, «and we find that jellies are filling in, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

Other researchers had already documented a nightly drop in activity in other species of jellyfish, but no jellyfish had been known to display the other aspects of sleep behaviour.

If the same holds true for other species, Hunt says, conservation biologists may want to take sexual dimorphism into account when assessing species» vulnerability to current environmental threats.

According to the researchers, the limits of spare capacity have been studied in very few other species, with most work focused on several varieties of snakes.

I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal charges).

The group now plan to investigate whether similar phenomena occur in other species of stingless and stinging bees.

«The potential harm,» says Purdue University geneticist William Muir, «is that transgenic fish may alter the niche or adversely affect other species.»

The most scientific approach one can take to death, he says, is to treat human beings like any other species.

In principle, Begun says hominins might also have originated in eastern Europe and migrated south with these other species.

DNA contamination from several species of bivalve was also detected, which indicates that, like other species of Xenoturbella, X. japonica likely feeds on marine bivalves.

There was one other species that strongly avoided the latrines during the study: humans.

In the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

Based on a popular book of the same name by paleontologist Neil Shubin, the three - part series Your Inner Fish traces our often unexpected evolutionary connections with other species, including reptiles and shrews.

«We think there will be dynamic bet hedging in many other species,» says Crean.

Females of other species trade sex for material benefits.

Killer whales have group - specific dialects, sperm whales babysit one another's young and bottlenose dolphins cooperate with other species.

«It's something that hasn't been documented in other species.»

That's what other species do, say Angela Crean and Dustin Marshall of the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Australia.

Baboons, grizzly bears and other species are giving up their wild ways as cities, farms and roads fracture habitat

You may have heard about pizzlies and grolars, the offspring of grizzlies and polar bears, but other species, such as the sun bear and Asiatic black bear, also hybridize in the wild.