Sentences with phrase «pigmentation patterns»

Getting the details right «required many hours of staring,» Nicholls says, as he and Vinther studied how to untangle the overlapping pigmentation patterns left in the various folds of the flattened fossil.

This supports a recent proposal that such cells may be the master control switches of domestication, explaining why domestic animals share common traits, such as smaller brains and certain pigmentation patterns — a mystery first noted by Charles Darwin.

The evolution of melanin - based within - feather pigmentation patterns may coincide with that of elongate pennaceous feathers in the common ancestor of Maniraptora, before active powered flight.

Each humpback's fluke is as unique as a human's fingerprint, and bears a one - of - a-kind pigmentation pattern.

Melanic pigmentation patterns differ widely across Drosophila species, from no pigment to complex patterns of stripes and spots, to ubiquitous black coloration.

One of the most remarkable trends in the evolution of pigmentation patterns is the repeated, independent occurrence of similar patterns on fly bodies and wings.

The melanin pigment produced by melanocytes results in the variation in hair color, skin color and pigmentation pattern observed across evolutionarily diverse animal species.

Bioprinted skin can now incorporate accurate skin pigmentation patterns, as reported by new research published in Biofabrication.

The disorder is usually associated with pigmentation patterns, where the presence of white in the hair coat increases the likelihood of deafness.

Now, researchers studying that era have taken reconstruction of fossil remains a step further, using the pigmentation patterns preserved in the fossil of a small, horned dinosaur to find out where it most likely lived.

The pigmentation patterns on those Cretaceous marine reptiles followed a pattern called countershading, in which the animal's back is dark and the belly is lighter.

They also used chemical analysis of organic compounds in the scales to infer the dinosaur's pigmentation pattern.

This gene (M) is dominant so that affected dogs (Mm) show the pigmentation pattern, which is desirable in many breeds.