Sentences with phrase «phylum as»

The team focused on two of these human microbes, Bacteroides intestinalis and Bacteroides ovatus, which belong to the same bacterial phylum as Prevotella from the cow.

As a biologist, she recognized the importance of mycorrhizal fungi and contributed to the description of a fungus in the Acaulosporaceae, a fungus in the same phylum as the species described in this paper.

Walcott described a large diversity of previously unknown arthropods, and most importantly many forms of previously unknown phyla as well as many forms that remain enigmatic today.

Not exact matches

Time manifested as life multiplies itself in countless individuals, species, genera, phyla, etc., in order to prolong itself, for it can maintain itself only by differentiating itself.

We see paws turned into pincers, paws equipped with hooves for running, burrowing paws and muzzles, winged paws, beaks, tusks and so on — innumerable adaptations giving birth to as many phyla, and each ending in a blind - alley of specialization.

The centers of consciousness, acquiring autonomy as they emerge into the sphere of reflection, tend to escape from their own phylum, which granulates into a line of individuals.

In this new form, and having lost nothing of its physical reality (indeed, as much superior to its first state as the Noosphere is superior to the simple, isolated phylum) it acquires, by becoming exterior to the individual, an incomparable substance and capacity.

along certain prescribed lines (reduction or adaptation of limbs, complication of teeth, increased specialization as carnivores or herbivores, runners, burrowers, swimmers, flyers, etc.); and secondly dispersive, since the different phyla separated at certain points of proliferation, certain «knots» which we may suppose to be periods of particularly active mutation.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

In the meantime, the presence of the spirit of Christ and the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard) in this history make history, as such, always influenced by the partial realization of atonement, and the vision of fully realized divine - human unanimity which history approaches as a limit.

The «missionary» enterprise on this model thus becomes an identifying, a naming, and an explication of the structure of grace so as to facilitate its greater actualization in the lives of persons with all sorts of relations to the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard).

Biologists do not agree about the mechanism of the continual disappearance of phyla in the course of geological time, a process almost as mysterious as that of their formation; but the reality of the phenomenon is indisputable.

The answer to the question of whether the sponges or the comb jellies (also known as sea gooseberries) represent the oldest extant animal phylum is of crucial importance to our understanding of organismic evolution.

«HIV - uninfected patients had much greater richness in their samples as well as a unique population that was primarily composed of bacteria from the phylum Fermicutes,» Luevano says.

Besides mushrooms such as truffles or morels, also many yeast and mould fungi, as well as other filamentous fungi belong to the Ascomycota phylum.

In fact, both the genetic potential to use the ancient Wood - Ljungdahl carbon fixation pathway and indications for methanogenic traits as well as the ability to anaerobically oxidize methane and other short hydrocarbons have now been found in various lineages outside the Euryarchaeota — the phylum comprising traditional methanogens and methane oxidizers.

The researchers identified fungi from two phyla, Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes, as part of the normal fungal census at the 14 skin sites.

Chris McGowan takes his readers on fascinating tours of the animal world, organised not by phylum or location but by biophysical concepts such as energy economy, scales of size and life cycles, and adaptations to the elements of earth, air, fire (or temperature to be more precise) and water.

She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.

«As an example of the potential impact of our finding, you can think about the phyla Cnidaria, which contains all of the world's anemones, corals, and jellyfish,» said senior author Mercer R. Brugler, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an assistant professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY.

In agreement with Fouts et al. (2012), the data presented here concurs that the different sexes have significantly different genera of bacteria present in their urine, different numbers of genera and that sequences in the main belong to the phylum Firmicutes for both male and female samples, as in the study by Siddiqui et al. (2011).

Certain types of microbes in the soil seemed to speed plant flowering time, the team found, while others, such as members of the Proteobacteria phylum, slowed it down.

Strikingly, no perilipin othologue has been identified in C. elegans, suggesting that nematode - specific lipid regulatory pathways might exist in this phylum and perhaps in others as well.

Important links in the fossil record also remain unaccounted for, such as the ancient last common ancestors connecting entire phyla.

Except for the Ediacaran biota, most animal phyla (some that persist and some that did not) appear in the fossil record rapidy and essentially simultaneously at the base of the Cambrian period, some 570 million years ago, an event known as the Cambrian Explosion.

Trained as an experimental embryologist, Martindale has worked on various aspects of the development and regeneration of some 14 animal phyla.

Recently, this very lab described the Asgard Archaea, an archaeal phylum with clear signs of cellular complexity, such as the presence of eukaryotic membrane trafficking components.

While the administration of singular or small groups of select beneficial microbes may not have a major impact on stable phyla, probiotic intervention studies (as discussed previously) have taught us that species - level application of microbes are not without clinical relevance.

Vocabulary Reviewed: Classification Kingdom Phylum Invertebrate Vertebrate Class Adaptations Food web Food chain Predator Prey Carnivore Herbivore Producers Consumers Internal Anatomy terms - gonads, brain, heart, ink sac, gills, pen, eye lens External Anatomy terms - mantle, eye, siphon, arms, tentacles, sucker cups, chromatophores, fin, mouth, beak Includes step by step directions as well as photos for the squid dissection and squid races.

Students are introduced to scientific classification such as phylum, genus, and species.»

They certainly aren't herps; in fact, they are about as distantly related as phyla come.

Mar operates a machinic phylum in which order emerges unexpectedly from chaos as a result of its nonlinear dynamics.

The aesthetic phylum of curtains invades Its Last Move like kudzu, at junctures as dense and as violent.

Michael Max Asher (July 15, 1943 — October 15, 2012) was a conceptual artist, described by The New York Times as «among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique, an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art.»

Of the thirty - odd phyla in the animal kingdom, at least a third are generally referred to as worms.

Belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, hydra are part of a group of organisms known as cnidarians which include jellyfish and sea anemones.

The phylum Nematoda, commonly known as the roundworms, included 24,793 described species as of 2011.

Phylogenetic position of phylum Nemertini, inferred from 18s rRNA sequences: Molecular data as a test of morphological character homology.

While generally not as inflammatory as the stuff found at PopSci, the legal blogosphere is hardly immune from, «shrill, boorish, specimens of the lower internet phyla.»