Sentences with phrase «other vertebrate»

I can think of no other vertebrate species that had accomplished this.

Except for the first two cervical vertebrae, between every other vertebrate is an intervertebral disc that acts as a cushion.

Until later in the Devonian the fishes were the only vertebrates, and gave rise to all other vertebrate lineages.

Wasserman pointed out that the conceptual principles used to study mice are transferable to other vertebrate animals.

We are also examining size proportions in other vertebrate groups, including reptiles, amphibians, cetaceans, and several fossil groups.

Fishes are a practically ubiquitous group of vertebrates with the potential to help formulate hypotheses that hold relevance for all other vertebrate groups.

The reasons for its appeal are many, but none rival the fact that the crystal - clear zebrafish embryo offers a view of burgeoning life that no other vertebrate model can.

Hybridization is more common in fishes than in any other vertebrate taxa (Leary et al. 1995).

These evolutionary hypotheses may also be compared with diversification and selective extinction patterns for other vertebrate groups that invaded Amazonian freshwater ecosystems from marine ancestries (e.g., stingrays belonging to Potamotrygonidae Garman, 1877, see Lovejoy, Bermingham & Martin, 1998; croakers in the genus Plagioscion Gill, 1861, see Cooke, Chao & Beheregaray, 2012), in conjunction with the timing of orogenetic events during the late Neogene (Hoorn et al., 2010).

«These findings show that tissue regeneration in African spiny mice is similar to that described for other vertebrate regenerators like salamanders and zebrafish, giving us a powerful framework to understand mammalian regeneration,» said Seifert.

Besides a few rodent fossils and the remains of an owl that probably fell into the Dinaledi chamber by mistake, there are no other vertebrate species present.

Give a mouse, man, or any other vertebrate enough doses of a psychostimulant like cocaine, and addiction almost surely will follow.

Not only can they hide from mackerel amongst the jellies» stinger - covered tentacles when they rise from the seafloor to feed and digest at night, they can also survive for hours within the ocean floor's low - or no - oxygen muds, which are pervaded by poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas — an inhospitable place lacking any other vertebrate species.

Professor Griffin explained: «Bird genomes are distinctive in that they have more tiny microchromosomes than any other vertebrate group.

In the pied flycatchers it reached as high as 146 Hz, some 50 Hz above the highest rate encountered for any other vertebrate.

«[It] has a single row of belly scales, it has very snake - like vertebrae, it has a body longer than the tail, it has hundreds of vertebrae, it has the remains of other vertebrate animals in the stomach and so it was a carnivore, it has backward pointing teeth.

He found that over the past 9,000 years, parts of the tuatara genetic code have changed 50 percent more quickly than those of any other vertebrate tested by the same method.

Growth hormone is a polypeptide hormone synthesised and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland which stimulates growth and cell reproduction in humans and other vertebrate animals.

Individual Greenland sharks appear to live perhaps a century longer than any other vertebrate, and might have life spans approaching 500 years.

He added that other vertebrate species commonly catch trematode infections from bodies of water.

We are swimming, along with every other vertebrate, in the sea of the Animal Kingdom.

Plus 1500 + species of mammals, fish, birds, insects, other vertebrates, ans invertebrates exhibit hômosèxuality.

Are all these species of mammals, fish, birds, insects, other vertebrates, and invertebrates, sinning?

The final count was 384 species of birds, 21 species of mammals, and a nice selection of other vertebrates, as well as many interesting plants and invertebrates.

The researchers say they are now «eager to see how additional finds from this region will reshape our understanding of plumage and soft tissues in dinosaurs and other vertebrates.»

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

This is true not just for humans and other vertebrates but for squids and other cephalopods as well.

Although the Burmese python's body shape is distinct from other vertebrates, including humans, its organs operate the same.

Several of the network genes Volkan and her team identified have counterparts in humans and other vertebrates, which suggests the same basic mechanism could be at work in building the nervous system in other animals too.

Once thought rare in humans and other vertebrates, RNA editing is now recognized as widespread in the human genome.

Scientists have now discovered that these viruses have integrated themselves into the DNA of a wide range of animals, including humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates.

Humans, fish, and other vertebrates, for example, are in the phylum Chordata.

«It may in fact be that regeneration is ancestral, but that newts have species - specific adaptations that allow it to have such spectacular regenerative capacities compared with other vertebrates.»

While pathogenic bunyaviruses can multiply at temperatures that include the human body temperature, growth of Jonchet and Ferak viruses ceases above 32 degrees Celsius, making it unlikely that the viruses infect humans or other vertebrates.

In 2014, UCSF's Nathan Young and Ralph Marcucio, working with Schneider, carried out extensive skull measurements on a variety of embryonic vertebrates and determined the point during development at which the bird face begins to diverge from those of other vertebrates.

In the treated chick embryos, the palate looked more like it does in other vertebrates: flat and seemingly reconnected to the jaw bones.

«We have already found several gene types that are dramatically expanded in the octopus relative to other vertebrates, and we think they play a critical role allowing a new level of neuronal complexity to be reached in invertebrates,» he said.

Parthenogenesis was known to occur in some fish, reptiles and other vertebrates (as well as in some invertebrates).

The biologists propose to do that by spending $ 60 million to pull together all the known information to assess roughly 160,000 individual species from four groups: chordates (mammals and other vertebrates); invertebrates (insects and worms); plants; and fungi.

Drosophila serves as a model organism that helps geneticists to decode the molecular fundamentals of cellular biology and unravel mechanisms that are conserved in human beings and other vertebrates.

When other vertebrates are working hardest, they burn energy at only 25 times their resting rate.

Now new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows they are equally adept at burning both glucose and fructose, which are the individual components of sugar; a unique trait other vertebrates can not achieve.

(Beneficial endosymbionts, such as Tremblaya, are fairly common in invertebrates, but are rare in humans and other vertebrates.)

Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.

Joint research by Uppsala University, Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) now shows that, in small passerines (perching birds) in the wild, vision is considerably faster than in any other vertebrates — and more than twice as fast as ours.

She's speaking of sub-Saharan Africa's Glossina flies» «really cool biology,» not their ability to spread the parasite that gives humans and some other vertebrates potentially fatal sleeping sickness.

Cephalopod brains are elaborations of the basic invertebrate brain, and have a completely different organization than what is found in humans and other vertebrates.

At night both males and females search out humans, their pets or other vertebrates pulsing with a good blood dinner.

The study, led by Dr Gareth Fraser from the University of Sheffield's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has revealed that the pufferfish has a remarkably similar tooth - making programme to other vertebrates, including humans.

So other small mammals and other vertebrates, such as amphibians and reptiles that lived there, they were either in their own burrows or they were in pocket gopher burrows or other small mammal burrows in the area.