Sentences with phrase «other vertebrate groups»

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.

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).

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

Not exact matches

Humans — along with most other living vertebrates — belong to the same group as bony fish, whose skeletons are made of bone.

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.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

«By narrowing down how many species exist within the largest group — the insects and other arthropods — we are now in a position to try to improve estimates for all species, including plants, fungi and vertebrates.

The international group of researchers analyzed the genomes of 48 avian species that represent the evolutionary history of modern birds and compared them to many other vertebrates to find DNA sequences specific to avians.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).